UK marked down for poor privacy rights in latest Web Index Report

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Seventy-six of the 81 countries examined did not meet best practice standards for checks and balances on government interception of electronic communications

The second report on the state of the internet has shown that the UK is behind Sweden and Norway when it comes to web freedom, and the US has fallen from second place to fourth. The Web Index Re...

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