Individual privacy is under threat around the world as governments continue introducing surveillance and information-gathering measures, according to an worldly rights group.

“The general trend is that privacy is being extinguished in country after country,” said Simon Davies, director of London-based Privacy worldly, which released a study on the issue Saturday.

“Even those countries where we expected ongoing strong privacy protection, like Germany and Canada, are sinking into the mire.”

Although privacy was improving in the former communist states of eastern

Europe, it is worsening across Western Europe, the report said.

Concerns about terrorism, immigration and border defense were driving the spread of identity and fingerprinting systems, according to the report.

Greece, Romania and Canada had

the best records of 47 countries Privacy universal surveyed.

Malaysia, Russia and China ranked worst, but Great Britain and the United States plus fell into the lowest-performing group of “endemic surveillance societies.”

The survey considered such […]

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