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The winners of the Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2009
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Big Brother Awards 2009 | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1705] The winners of the Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2009 were announced on 5 February 2010 in Amsterdam. In the category “Government”, the prize was awarded to the creation of a fingerprint database of all Dutch citizens, to be accessed by the […]
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Czech Big Brother Awards 2009
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Tschechische Big Brother Awards 2009| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1612] The results of the fifth annual Big Brother Awards were announced at a festive evening in Prague’s Theatre Na Pradle on 12 November 2009. A jury of experts chose from almost 80 nominations entered by the public. Among those awarded are the […]
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Big Brother Awards France 2009
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Big Brother Awards Frankreich 2009 | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1363] The French Big Brother Awards ceremony, or ‘Orwell Party’, was held this year on Saturday 4 April. The 2009 edition awarded 12 of the 35 nominees, in 6 categories, one of them being the positive ‘Voltaire Award’. Armand Mattelart, a renowned […]
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Big Brother Awards 2009 Ceremony in Bulgaria
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 28 January 2009, Access to Information Programme and EDRi-member Internet Society – Bulgaria organized the fourth Big Brother Awards ceremony in Bulgaria. It was held at the National Press center of the Bulgarian News Agency and was also broadcasted live online. The awardees of the Big […]
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Big Brother Awards UK 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Big Brother Awards (BBA) are back in UK with more positive awards to celebrate the people that have been involved in protecting privacy in the past years. The event, held in December 2008 at the London School of Economics, was organized by the EDRi-member Privacy International and […]
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Big Brother Awards Czech Republic 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The fourth edition of Big Brother Awards was announced in the Czech Republic in Prague on 14 November 2008. Under the direction of Czech EDRi-member Iuridicum Remedium, seven worst perpetrators of the right to privacy were awarded. The positive prize was granted to German Working Group on […]
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Big Brother Awards Germany 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The ninth edition of the Big Brother Awards Germany ceremony took place on 24 October 2008 in Bielefeld, Germany. The “Oscars for data leeches” event was organized by EDRi-member FoeBuD that gave seven negative awards. The Big Brother Award 2008 in the “Europe/EU” category went to The […]
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Big Brother Awards Finland 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) EFFi (Electronic Frontier Finland) gave out Big Brother Awards for the fifth time in a ceremony held at Helsinki Book Fair on 25 October 2008. This year, Big Brother Awards were given to companies and public servants who had done the most to promote an Orwellian surveillance […]
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BBA Awards Italy 2008
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Italian Big Brother Awards for 2008 were presented on 10 May 2008 during an e-privacy convention in Florence. The Italian jury is formed by 6 jurors who have to vote over 26 nominations, out of which 5 are for the positive award. The public institution award […]
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Big Brother Awards – France 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 21 March 2008, Paris was the host of the French Big Brother awards ceremony for the year 2007. For the second time President Nicolas Sarkozy was excluded from the competition on grounds of “genetic predisposition” for attacks to personal life and freedoms. The jury has reached […]
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Bulgarian Big Brother Awards
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 28 January 2008, the Access to Information Programme and EDRi-member Internet Society Bulgaria presented the Big Brother negative awards. The Big Brother award was presented to the Ministry of Interior for publishing data from the passports and criminal conviction records of two BBC journalists who were […]
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Czech Big Brother Awards 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A panel of nine experts including journalists and civic associations’ members chose the awards for this year BBA winners at the ceremony on 13 November 2007 in Prague, from more than 70 nominations. The Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic received the award in the category […]
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