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Big Brother Awards 2007 – Austria and Switzerland
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Big Brother Awards ceremonies in Austria and Switzerland took place in the past weeks in Viena, on the 25 October 2007 and in St Gall, on the 9 November 2007, respectively. The Swiss ceremony of the 8th edition of Big Brother Awards was organised by the […]
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"Oscars for Data Leeches" – German Big Brother Awards 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The 2007 Ceremony for the German Big Brother Awards called “Oscars for Data Leeches” took place on 12 October in Bielefeld when the jury had the difficult task of choosing from more than 500 nominations. The negative Big Brother Awards Germany, which have started in 2000, are […]
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Winner Dutch Big Brother Awards 2007: 'You'
The Dutch Big Brother Award 2007 in the Individual category has been awarded to the Dutch citizen. He is the biggest threat to privacy according to the jury. Due to indifference – “I have nothing to hide” – and lack of interest in what happens to their personal data, citizens share responsibility for the disappearance […]
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The Italian Big Brother Awards for 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 19 May 2007, the two-day e-Privacy Conference in Florence hosted the Big Brother Awards Italy. The candidates for the awards were selected by a jury made of seven members. The people’s choice price “The People’s lament” was won by far by Telecom Italia especially for the […]
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Nominations for Big Brother Award Italy 2007 are now open
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The official start of the call for nominations for the Italian Big Brother Award (BBA) 2007 began on 2 April 2007 and will last until 30 April. In a scenario where privacy is all the time attacked by new technologies and doubtful initiatives to protect our “security”, […]
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French Big Brother Awards 2006
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The French Big Brother Awards event that took place on 20 January 2007 has brought the exclusion from this competition of Mr. Sarkozy, for having already won three of the Orwell prizes during the last three years and thus by far outclassing his competitors. This year, the […]
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Swiss Big Brother Awards 2006
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 16 November 2006, Sudhaus cultural centre of Bâle hosted the Swiss Big Brother Awards ceremony of 2006 organised by Archives de l’Etat Fouineur Swiss and the EDRI-member Swiss Internet User Group SIUG. The jury deciding on the winners included 11 people from various institutions and organizations […]
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Czech Republic bestowed Big Brother Awards for the second time
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 30 October 2006 in Prague the Big Brother Awards for the most egregious data privacy transgressions in the Czech Republic were bestowed for the second time. The event organised by the NGO Iuridicum Remedium was quite a big success reported by many national media. The chief […]
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Big Brother Awards Germany
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The 2006 German Big Brother awards ceremony took place last week in Bielefeld and it was preceded by the demonstration “Freedom instead of Fear” (Freiheit statt Angst) against Security and Surveillance Delusion, where about 300 people protested against the growth of pervasive surveillance in Germany. For the […]
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Big Brother Awards Italy 2006
From 19 May to 20 May Florence has hosted the E-Privacy 2006 conference, organized as usual – by the Winston Smith Project with the help of several volunteers. This edition saw a much larger participation than 2005: the participants could hardly fit the hall of Palazzo Vecchio, and several people had to stand for the […]
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French Big Brother Awards 2006
The 6th edition of the French Big Brother Awards taking place in Paris on 3 February has chosen the following in the 5 different award sections, for causing the most damage to personal privacy. The Orwell Award for State official – the winner was Jean-Michel Charpin, Directeur de l’Insee (INES) for his participation in the […]
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Big Brother Award for Dutch immigration minister
Dutch Minister Rita Verdonk for Integration and Immigration won a negative Big Brother Award during the Dutch awards ceremony on 28 January 2006 in De Melkweg in Amsterdam. Minister Verdonk was awarded the price for having handed-over the status of asylum seeker of rejected applicants to their country of origin, for having denied it repeatedly […]
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