Privacy Rights Eroding in Canada

In case you missed it, and it's entirely possible that you did since it came out on New Year's Eve: a new report is out on the erosion of privacy rights in Canada.

Individual privacy is best protected in Canada but is under threat in the United States and the European Union as governments introduce surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and border control, an international rights group said in a report.

The report indicated that this was largely due to Canada's ties to the US and Europe (the US and Britain scored the lowest of the countries surveyed).

He cites the CIA's accessing the banking records of Canadians through the SWIFT banking information system, the Canadian no-fly list, and the Toronto Transit Commission's installation of security cameras as examples of the erosion of privacy rights.

You can read more about it at the GlobeandMail.com