SECUR> Privacy International Seeks Nominations for Big Brother Awards
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- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:39:03 -0600
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[6] Privacy International Seeks Nominations for Big Brother Awards
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In April 2003, Privacy International (PI) will hold the fifth U.S.
"Big Brother Awards" to name and shame the public and private sector
individuals and organizations that have done the most to invade
personal privacy in the United States in the past year.
Three distinctive "Orwell" statues of a golden boot stomping a head
will be presented to the government agencies and officials, companies
and initiatives that have done the most to invade personal privacy in
the previous year. The "Admiral John M. Poindexter Lifetime Menace"
award will also be presented to an organization that has
systematically invaded privacy over a long period of time. Previous
"winners" include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National
Security Agency, DoubleClick, ChoicePoint, Trans Union, Oracle, the
FAA's BodyScan system, the Department of Commerce and Microsoft.
"Brandeis" awards will also be given out to champions of privacy. The
Brandeis Award is named after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
Brandeis, who is considered the father of American privacy law,
describing privacy as "the right most valued by civilized" persons.
The awards are given to those who have done exemplary work to protect
and enhance privacy. Previous winners include Phil Zimmermann,
creator of PGP; Beth Givens, founder of the Privacy Rights
Clearinghouse; and Robert Ellis Smith, editor of the Privacy Journal.
The judging panel, consisting of lawyers, academics, consultants,
journalists and civil rights activists, is currently inviting
nominations from members of the public. Nominations can be submitted
via the PI Web site. Privacy International will post the most popular
current nominations on its site.
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The U.S. Big Brother Awards are now in their fifth year. There have
also been ceremonies in the UK, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, France, Denmark and the
Netherlands. The initiator of the awards, Privacy International, was
founded in 1990, and campaigns on a wide range of privacy issues
around the world. Substantial support for the Awards is made through
the Public Voice Campaign.
The ceremony will be held at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City at
the 13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy.
Privacy International Big Brother Awards Page:
http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/us2003/
Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy:
http://www.cfp2003.org/
The Public Voice:
http://www.thepublicvoice.org/
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