Surveillance States: Which countries best protect privacy of their citizens?

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Surveillance States: Which countries best protect privacy of their citizens?
October 15, 2019
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/surveillance-states/

Comparitech has assessed privacy protection and the state of surveillance in 47 countries to see where governments are failing to protect privacy and/or are creating surveillance states.
To do this we looked at a number of categories, from the use of biometrics and CCTV to data sharing and retention laws.

Not one country is consistent in protecting the privacy of its citizens, most are actively surveilling their citizens, and only five could be deemed to have “adequate safeguards.”
Are things improving or getting worse?

Outside of the EU, several countries are creating what can only be described as surveillance states, with privacy rights seemingly taking a serious back seat. Perhaps unsurprisingly, China and Russia are the biggest culprits.
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Key findings
Here are some notable findings from the study:
• China’s government not only fails to protect citizens’ privacy, but actively invades it
• Collection and retention of biometric data—fingerprints and faces—is ramping up worldwide
• EU countries tend to share a large amount of their citizens’ data with fellow member states
• Immigrants are often most impacted by government surveillance, particularly when they enter or leave a country
• Only five countries have adequate privacy safeguards according to our scoring system, and all of them are in Europe. The GDPR plays a large role in this, but does not account for everything
• No countries earned a perfect score, or even a near-perfect score
• Enforcement varies widely even among those countries with good privacy laws
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