The UK is the lowest ranked western country in the world in terms of protecting the privacy of the individual. It’s one of the many reasons I decided to leave England for Canada.

The report’s co-writer Dr David Murakami-Wood told BBC News that, compared to other industrialised Western states, the UK was “the most surveilled country”.

“We have more CCTV cameras and we have looser laws on privacy and data protection,” he said.

“We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us.”

You can see the survey by Privacy International here.

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