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