The US and the UK are “endemic surveillance societies” – in the same league as China and Russia – says an . Released last month by advocacy groups Privacy International of the UK and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington DC, the 2007 report also finds an increase in surveillance and a decline in privacy safeguards globally compared to 2006.
The US was in the bottom group for the first time, following the , which permits spying on international phone calls and emails…
