Japan 19th in Electronic Police State ranking

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    A site called CryptoHippie.com has produced a ranking of the worst electronic surveillance states. A little over 50 countries were studied, and Japan came in 19th place, making it orange instead of red on their map:

    Japan Police State

    Nations depicted in Red are the most advanced electronic police states,
    with an average rank of 3.0 or greater.

    Nations depicted in Orange are strongly developing electronic police
    states, with an average rank of 2.5 or greater.

    Nations depicted in Yellow are lagging (but still developing) electronic
    police states, with an average rank of 2.0 or greater.

    Nations depicted in green are states that seem to be going toward the
    electronic police state model, but not as quickly.

    The ranking of all nations where data was collected is as follows:

    1. China
    2. North Korea
    3. Belarus
    4. Russia
    5. United Kingdom: England & Wales
    6. United States of America
    7. Singapore
    8. Israel
    9. France
    10.Germany
    11.Malaysia
    12.Ireland
    13.United Kingdom: Scotland
    14.Netherlands
    15.South Korea
    16.Ukraine
    17.Belgium
    18.Australia
    19.Japan
    20.New Zealand
    21.Austria
    22.Norway
    23.India
    24.Italy
    25.Taiwan
    26.Denmark
    27.Hungary
    28.Greece
    29.Canada
    30.Switzerland
    31.Slovenia
    32.Poland
    33.Finland
    34.Sweden
    35.Latvia
    36.Lithuania
    37.Cyprus
    38.Malta
    39.Estonia
    40.Czech Republic
    41.Iceland
    42.South Africa
    43.Spain
    44.Portugal
    45.Luxembourg
    46.Argentina
    47.Romania
    48.Thailand
    49.Bulgaria
    50.Brazil
    51.Mexico
    52.Philippines

    Further information can be found in this PDF file on the CryptoHippie site.

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