GLOBAL INTERNET LIBERTY CAMPAIGN

PRIVACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Practice

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

OVERVIEW: The State of the World's Privacy

THREATS TO PRIVACY

DEFINING PRIVACY

THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY

THE TECHNOLOGIES OF PRIVACY INVASION

Identity cards
Biometrics
Surveillance of Communications
Internet and email interception
National security and the Echelon system
Video Surveillance
Workplace surveillance


COUNTRY REPORTS

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
South Korea
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Russia
San Marino
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States of America

 


APPENDICES

United Nations, GUIDELINES CONCERNING COMPUTERIZED PERSONAL DATA FILES. Adopted by the General Assembly on 14 December 1990.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data

European Union, Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995

Contributors

Members of GILC