Belarus and Russia - "electronic police" states

The hacker company Cryptohippie attempted to summarize all available information from different countries about mass electronic surveillance technologies, the use of SORM-like systems, cases of prosecution of citizens for their Internet activity (these are indirect evidence that such surveillance is conducted), the level of cryptography, tracking financial transactions and the general state of Internet censorship. They gathered information from 17 sources (including from organizations such as Reporters Without Borders, Information Center for Electronic Privacy, etc.) and made the first of its kind summary rating of the most “electronic-policing states”. Here is the final report ( PDF ), as well as a table with raw data ( XLS ).

Quite expectedly, North Korea and China occupied the first two places in the table. Next in the “honorable” list are Belarus and Russia, and Russia is based on a real assessment of 17 parameters, and Belarus simply because of its reputation, there are not even open statistics on it, like in North Korea. Interestingly, these countries are followed by quite “democratic” Great Britain, the USA, Singapore, Israel, France and Israel. It turns out that they are also starting to practice close surveillance of their citizens via the Internet.

Regarding the free countries that are marked on the map in green, very little is left in the world - these are Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, Bulgaria and Romania.
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