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Which article are you evaluating?

 * 1) Information privacy
 * 2) Mass surveillance

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?

 * 1) This was the mandatory assigned article.
 * 2) I find the topic of mass surveillance interesting.

Evaluate the article

 * 1) My main issue with the article is that there isn't enough content in it. The introduction doesn't explain the topic in much detail at all. The discussion on each of the information types is very brief as well. The article also only really goes into detail on information privacy in the United States. I think the topic could be expanded to include many more countries. The citations all seem to work properly and there are a great variety of sources. However, a few sections like the one about the US Safe Harbor Act seem to have minimal citations.
 * 2) The article is very detailed, going in depth on introducing the topic and on the various countries that go in mass surveillance. I think the article isn't as long because much of the discussion on surveillance in different countries have their own article. Even still, the individual sections dedicated to each country in the article give an adequate summary of the topic with regard to that country, with the exception of the section on Canada which doesn't have any information. The article's citations rely a lot on news articles. I'm not sure if it's just the nature of the topic, but I feel like it should also cite published journals, books, and the such since news sites aren't always reliable.