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Hyatt Regency
Cambridge, Mass
March 7, 2001
On March 7,
Privacy International held the 3rd annual US Big
Brother awards to celebrate the invaders and
champions of privacy. The ceremony took place at
the 2001
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
Conference.
The "Orwell"
statutes were presented to the government agencies,
companies and initiatives which have done most to
invade personal privacy. A "Lifetime Menace" award
was also presented.
2 awards were also given to
champions of privacy. The Brandeis Award is named
after US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who
described privacy as "the right to be left alone."
The awards are given to those have done exemplary
work to protect and champion privacy.
The winners of
the awards were selected by a judging
panel
made up of lawyers, academics, consultants,
journalists and civil rights activists based on
nominees made by the public and
experts.
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Awards
Categories
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Most
Invasive Proposal
The FBI'sCarnivore
privacy-eating snooper program.
Runners
Up
Content
Protection for Recordable Media for wanting
to put an id number on every hard drive and
memory stick and make every persons PC
useless to stop MP3s
HHS's Medical Privacy Regs for allowing
marketing of medical information and then
stopping the regs to further weaken
them.
Greatest
Corporate Invader
ChoicePoint
for massive selling of records, accurate and
inaccurate to cops, direct marketers
and election officials.
Runners
Up
Network
Solutions for selling the Whois database
Northern Telecomm for its "Personal
Intenet"
program.
Worst
Public Official
City of Tampa
for spying on all of the Superbowl
attendies.
Runners
Up
Tussey
Mountain, Penn Cambria & Lower Merion
School Districts, Pennsylvania for using
fingerprints on children for school
lunches
US Department
of Justice for the Cyber-crime convention,
defending Carnivore and too many other
privacy-invasive initiatives to
count.
Lifetime
Menace
National Security Agency
for Clipper, Echelon and 50 years of spying.
Runners
Up
IBM
for years of selling computers to developing
countries that are used to suppress
populations and for lobbying against privacy
laws and standards wordlwide
Direct
Marketing Association for ensuring that your junk
mail is correctly delivered to you.
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Brandeis
Awards
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Evan
Hendricks
20 years of publishing the Privacy Times
Julie Brill
Vermont Attorney General's Office
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Press
Coverage
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ABCNews.com, An
Award You Don't Want, Privacy Group to Hand Out
'Big Brother' Awards, March 6, 2001
Reuters, Computer
policy makers debate online privacy issues,
March 7, 2001.
SecurityFocus.com, And
the Winner Is ...FBI, Tampa Bay, honored in 2001
Big Brother Awards, March 7, 2001.
Newsbytes, NSA,
Carnivore, Others Win 'Anti-Awards', March 7,
2001.
ABCNews.com, Is
'Big Brother' Watching? Group Gives 'Awards' For
Privacy Invasion, March 8, 2001.
NewsFactor Network, Carnivore
Wins 'Most Heinous' Internet Award, March 8,
2001.
Register.com, NSA
and FBI big winners at Big Brother awards,
March 8, 2001.
ORF FutureZone, "Big
Brother Awards" in den USA vergeben, March 8,
2001.
Heise, Echelon-Betreiber
NSA wurde als Big Brother ausgezeichnet, March
8, 2001.
Die WELT, US-Geheimdienst
NSA bekommt "Big Brother Award"
Telepolis, NSA
offiziell zum Big Brother gekürt, March 8,
2001.
Wired News, Privacy
Awards: The Good and Bad, March 9, 2001.
Slashdot, Big
Brother Awards Announced, March 10, 2001.
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