Big Brother Awards

The Big Brother Awards (BBAs) recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy". They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. They are awarded yearly to authorities, companies, organizations, and persons that have been acting particularly and consistently to threaten or violate people's privacy, or disclosed people's personal data to third parties.

Big Brother Award 2008 (Germany)
Big Brother Awards 2008 (Austria)
Big Brother Awards 2010 (Netherlands)
Big Brother Awards 2013 (France)

The awards are intended to draw public attention to privacy issues and related alarming trends in society, especially in data privacy. The contest is organized by loose coalition of nongovernmental organization, including Iuridicum Remedium,[1] Privacy International,[2] and others, although some national-level BBAs are organized by specific sponsors.

The German Big Brother Awards are organized and hosted by Digitalcourage (formerly FoeBuD) in Bielefeld.

The United States most recently hosted its Big Brother Awards – also known as the Orwell Awards or simply the Orwells – on 14 April 2005 in Seattle, Washington. They had previously been hosted in Berkeley, California, on 12 April 2004; New York City on 3 April 2003; San Francisco, California, on 18 April 2002; and Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 7 March 2001. The first annual US Big Brother Awards were made at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference in Washington, D.C., on 7 April 1999, the 50th anniversary of the publication of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.[3] The awards were made by Simon Davies, managing director[4] of the London-based Privacy International to recognize "the government and private sector organizations which have done the most to invade personal privacy in the United States."[3] The awards were given in five categories: Greatest Corporate Invader, Lifetime Menace, Most Invasive Program, People's Choice, and Worst Public Official.[4]

Countries

The following countries have their own version of the Big Brother Awards:

gollark: Either that or it is nonrandom and deliberately tries to support people who would otherwise leave.
gollark: Random chance!
gollark: People probably do want hatchlings more than uninfluencable-now eggs.
gollark: Thanks for the massbreed! AP times are down.
gollark: *sits here with 270 or so*

See also

References
  1. "Lidská práva, watchdog, advocacy (Aktuality) – Iuridicum Remedium – IuRe".
  2. "Big Brother Awards International".
  3. Diederich, Tom (8 April 1999). "Intel, US Govt "honored" for breaches of privacy". Computerworld. Archived from the original on October 4, 1999. Retrieved 25 Jul 2014.
  4. Boodhoo, Niala (8 April 1999). "Orwell's Legacy: Big Brother Awards". PC World Today. Archived from the original on May 8, 1999. Retrieved 25 Jul 2014.
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