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Since 9/11, DHS, the FBI, the CIA, and countless other alphabet soup agencies have turned the
United States into a public surveillance monstrosity.In 19 years, one terrorist attack has done what no one else could have dreamed of: turn America's freedoms into a distant memory.
Abusing citizen's rights and privacy used to be the hallmark of dictatorships and police states like the
CCCP or
North Korea.
A recent
study conducted by Comparitech, rated 50 countries from best to worst at protecting citizen's biometric data.
The study found that America is one of the world's worst abusers of citizen's biometric privacy.
"While China topping the list perhaps doesn't come as too much of a surprise, residents of (and travelers to) other countries may be surprised and concerned at the extent of biometric information that is being collected on them and what is happening to it afterward."
This really should not come as a surprise, because last year Comparitech
revealed that
American and Chinese cities lead the world in spying on their citizens. Last week, I wrote an article explaining how 2019 would go down as the year that
facial recognition and corporate surveillance became commonplace in America.
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