"The 2007 International Privacy Ranking"
Tell you what, why don't you do the legwork and tell us which countries have the most surveillance cameras and of those, which ones are often admired in America as examples of a "progressive" social government.
OK.
From "The 2007 International Privacy Ranking" published "[by] the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International".
Aren't you proud of the company we're keeping? Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia, China, Malaysia, and our good buddies in the UK. (Aren't you sorry you issued that snotty challenge?)
The country report for the US makes for depressing reading. For example, since we were using London as the poster child of a surveillance society:
New York City is planning the "Lower Manhattan Security Initiative," based on London's "ring of steel." The NYC plan would greatly enhance the surveillance of downtown streets by installing another 3,000 cameras and license plate scanners to track the thousands of drivers who enter the Manhattan area daily, creating an operations center, and possibly using face recognition technology.[129] The city estimates the new surveillance system would cost $90 million, $10 million of which would come from Homeland Security grants and $15 million from NYC. The city also is seeking to charge drivers a fee for entering Lower Manhattan; the fees would go toward the surveillance project.
Too many more to relate. Here are some section titles: "Passenger Profiling and Prescreening", "Surveillance of Foreigners and Immigration Controls", "Data Mining", "Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)", "National Identity Card", "Video Surveillance and Face Recognition Technology", "The "PATRIOT Act"", "Electronic Surveillance", "Medical Privacy", "Unsolicited Commercial E-mails ("Spam")", "Identity Theft"...America's become Oceania.