News and Developments

UK Big Brother Awards 2005 shortlist announced 09/06/2005
This year’s shortlist contains a mix of some of Britain’s most greedy, incompetent, invasive and manipulative mandarins and organisations.

1984 Opera Premieres in London (external) 27/04/2005
The Royal Opera House in London will be presenting an opera of 1984. The World premiere is May 3.

Australian Big Brother Awards 2004 26/11/2004
The Australian Privacy Foundation announced the winners of the 2004 Australian Big Brother Awards on 25 November. The Winners were Lifetime Menace: Carl Scully, NSW Minister for Roads, People's choice: Queensland Smartcard Drivers Licence, Greatest corporate invader: Major political parties, Worst Public Agency or Official: Bob Debus, NSW Attorney-General and Most invasive technology: Biometric passports. The Best Privacy Guardian award was given to John Pane, Australia Post's Chief Privacy Officer.

50th Big Brother Award Held 31/10/2004
CPSR-Spain held the 3rd annual Spanish Big Brother Award in Seville on 30 October 2004. The ceremony marked the 50th Big Brother Award ceremony globally. Winners were the "Government-in-the-Shadow" that led to the Indymedia servers being seized in England, Telefónica for giving out subscriber data, Zara for putting RFID chips in their products, and SGAE for their promotion of levys on blank CDs for copyright enforcement. José Manuel Gómez, creator of www.kriptopolis.com site received the positive award for his efforts promoting privacy.

Swiss Big Brother Awards 16/10/2004
Swiss NGOs on 16 October 2004 held the 5th Swiss Big Brother Awards in Lucerne. The winners were Corps commander Hansruedi Fehrlin, Swiss Air Force(category government), santésuisse, Solothurn (cat. business), Zürich Municipal Police (cat. workspace), Josef Leu, National Councillor CVP/Lucerne (category lifetime award).

Press Releases

US Big Brother Awards 2005 Contenders 28/03/2005
Public nominations for the 7th annual US Big Brother Awards have decisively moved ChoicePoint to the position of lead contender for this year’s shameful “Lifetime Menace” award.

UK 4th Big Brother Awards Winners announced 04/03/2002
This year's "Big Brother Awards" have named Cabinet Secretary Sir Richard Wilson as "Worst Public Servant" for 2002.

Events and Public Meetings

1st Korean Big Brother Awards (external) 22/11/2005
Korean Progressive Network Jimbonet and other NGOs held the 1st Big Brother Awards Korea on 22 November in Seoul. Winners were the National ID Card, the Ministry of Information and Communication, and "Phantom of Samsung SDI''. The National Intelligence Service received a special prize and the DNA Database of Convicted Criminals by Police and Prosecution was chosen the most popular by Netizens.

UK Big Brother Awards 2005 10/05/2005
Privacy International will hold its 7th UK Big Brother Awards ceremony on the 15th of December at the London School of Economics.

PI Announces U.S. Big Brother Awards winners for 2005 15/04/2005
In a ceremony in Seattle, Washington, Privacy International held the 2005 Big Brother Awards with some suprising winners.

U.S. Big Brother Awards 2005 31/03/2005
On April 14th, 2005 Privacy International will hold the 7th annual U.S. Big Brother Awards to shame the invaders and celebrate the champions of privacy. The ceremony will be held at the 2005 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, in Seattle.

French Big Brother Awards 2004 23/01/2005
The 5th French Big Brother Awards were held on 21 January 2005 at the Centre Cuturel La Clé in Paris.

Big Brother Awards Switzerland 2004 27/08/2004
The 5th annual Swiss ceremony of the Big Brother Awards will take place on 16 October in the city of Emmen. The slogan 'Nicht lamentieren, nominieren' (don't lament, nominate!) now calls on a special new category of victims of Big Brother; workers that are being controlled at the work-floor with the help of video-camera's and key-loggers. Deadline for nominations is 31 August 2004.

Austrian Big Brother Awards 2004 27/08/2004
The 2004 Austrian Big Brother Awards will be held in Vienna on 26 October 2004.

Campaigns

Privacy International announces global privacy invaders 02/05/2007
In an event in Montreal, Canada, Privacy International ran the first International Big Brothers Awards ceremony. PI outed the most invasive companies, projects, officials, and governments. A special award for the 'Lifetime Menace' was also announced.