According to a recent report, Russia has spied on at least 6% of its population in the past 10 years:
At least six percent of Russia's population has been under state surveillance at some point in the last nine years, according to a report released by human rights activists Monday.
Information released by Russian human rights group Agora claims that the Russian Supreme Court received some 4,659,325 applications to monitor and record telephone communications between 2007 and 2015. The court approved almost 97 percent of these, or 4,517,515.
Assuming that each wiretap target was in conversation with at least one other person, activists calculate that six percent of the Russian population, or 8.5 million people, have been monitored by the state at some time.
You can read the rest @
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/state-has-put-6-of-russians-under-surveillance-in-past-decade---report/569652.html
But according to this report, US citizens live in a TOTAL surveillance state in which ALL communications are recorded for analysis:
http://www.alternet.org/activism/we-live-under-total-surveillance-state-america-can-we-prevent-it-evolving-full-blown-police
So ... who's the "evil empire", them or us?
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