Sarah Andrews
Electronic Privacy Information
Center
Washington, DC, US
Privacy International
London, UK
This annual report
by EPIC and Privacy International reviews the state of privacy in over fifty
countries around the world. It outlines legal protections for privacy, new
challenges, and summarizes important issues and events relating to privacy
and surveillance.
Updated and expanded for 2001, the report includes new sections on genetic
privacy, location tracking, authentication, and identification requirements,
electronic numbering, corporate sharing of information with governments,
and the privacy implications of digital rights management schemes.
The Privacy and Human Rights report finds that many countries are moving
to enact laws the guarantee freedom from government and corporate surveillance
and intrusion. However, technical developments, law enforcement demands,
and business efforts to exploit personal information continue to pose new
threats to privacy and anonymity in today's society.
