I wasn’t going to write about this, but then something made me think twice. That was the bit that included my own nation with the ‘endemic surveillance society‘ line indicating what the US has become.
I knew a long time ago about London being Big Brother capital – you are photographed something like 30 times a day travelling through London. Surreptitiously. Or perhaps not even that, quite openly if you know where the cameras are…
The article, “The US is Now an Endemic Surveillance Society“, really puts things into perspective. Having lived in the US for eleven years I always thought (and still do in a way) that it was a fair and free society. Sure, 9/11 changed a lot of things, and excesses of power are everywhere not just in the US or other Western societies. But it’s frightening to know that, as the author points out:
We now share the “Endemic” distinction with China, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, and the UK…
Great. The UK ranked with China. That’s like saying your girlfriend is as good looking as your friend’s pet pig.
What’s worse is that Romania of all places is well ranked in terms of privacy and surveillance, with Canada (slipping though) and Greece.
richard
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