Your Rights Online: The Electronic Police State

Slashdot ^ | 5/11/9 | kdawson

[Clint Williams]

gerddie writes

"Cryptohippie has published what may be called a first attempt to describe the 'electronic police state' (PDF). Based on information available from different organizations such as Electronic Privacy Information Center, Reporters Without Borders, and Freedom House, countries were rated on 17 criteria with regard to how close they are already to an electronic police state. The rankings are for 2008. Not too surprisingly, one finds China, North Korea, Belarus, and Russia at the top of the list. But the next slots are occupied by the UK (England and Wales), the US, Singapore, Israel, France, and Germany."

This is a good start, but it would be good to see details of their methodology. They do provide the raw data (in XLS format), but no indication of the weightings they apply to the elements of "electronic police state" behavior they are scoring.

[R0CK3T]

In America we prefer to refer to this new variety of Police Enforcement as “Community Organizers”.

[Lazamataz]

NETIZEN'S ARREST!!! NETIZEN'S ARREST!!!