The U.S. Is Not The Only Country That Is Spying On It's Citizens

Snooping States: NSA Not Alone In Spying On Citizens -- Christian Science Monitor

From Canada to India, democracies worldwide employ new technology to monitor their citizens.

Confidential documents leaked to the press by Edward Snowden revealing the National Security Agency’s (NSA) PRISM – a program which scoops up personal information off the likes of Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Skype – has shed light on the creeping growth of the United States’ surveillance on its own citizens.

Though the magnitude of the program is startling, US Internet surveillance is not new – and the US government is not alone. Dozens of other governments snoop on their citizens and have been doing so for years – and the list of offenders is not exclusive to the autocrats of the world. In fact, many “democracies” run programs very similar to PRISM.

“[With] respect to surveillance, the United States is believed to be among the most aggressive countries in the world in terms of listening to online conversations,” notes the OpenNet Initiative, a non-partisan academic institute that monitors government Internet surveillance worldwide. Others include nations across Europe and in North America.

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My Comment: So the question should be .... what states are NOT spying on it's citizens. I would love to have that list.