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Compare last year’s ranking of country privacy protections with this year’s. Specifically, look at Canada’s ranking. Then look at America. Then Russia. Then China. Uh…do you see a connection?

Certainly, Canada’s ranking is being impacted by our inability to resist American surveillance. And isn’t that a perfect picture: America = Russia = China. lol.

For kicks check out Japan too. Better but I love the “euphemism” — ‘failure to uphold standards’. As in, we got’em…we just don’t know what to do with ‘em.

Bruce Schneier writes the best review I’ve seen so far of Britain’s “privacy Chernobyl” where a low-level government employee mailed a copy of the entire national child database to the National Audit Office in London — and they were lost in the process.

Rule of thumb? Data minimization.

Worth watching: Canada’s Federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart appears on CBS’ 60 Minutes as part of its report on the TJX data heist.

Some nice visuals show you much more clearly than the dry print-media do exactly how your credit card data gets transmitted and, hence, how it may be breached — or conversely, secured.

Check it out.

Brilliant suggestion: CIPPIC is calling for a “do not track” list that does to the marketing world online what the “do not call” list does for the telemarketing world of phones.

According to Jordan McCollum at Marketing Pilgrim.com, if you use the Google Video “Post to my blog” feature, your password and login information are not protected. No https, no encryption, no SSL: they’re listed right in the headers.

Funny that this didn’t make nearly as much news as all the other Google-related privacy brouhaha.