UK-based Comparitech has assessed the privacy and state of surveillance in 47 countries and released the Global Surveillance Index.
Countries are ranked based on
Constitutional protection
Privacy enforcement,
Biometrics
Data sharing etc.
India is among the world’s top three surveillance states, according to Compritech's global survey.
It is next only to Russia and China when it comes to its surveillance framework and dubbed as a country with “systemic failure to maintain privacy safeguards”.
Among European Union nations, Ireland, France, Portugal, and Denmark are among the top four with adequate safeguards.