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Big Brother Lifetime Award Goes To Microsoft
D4C5CE writes "Microsoft's ceaseless "success" in bringing instability, insecurity and
breaches of privacy as well as a deplorable lack of open standards to
almost Every Desktop on Earth has now earned them an "Oscar" for Data
Leeches, the Lifetime Award for
"outstanding mis-achievement" from the BigBrotherAwards 2002
in Germany. Microsoft's
Data Protection Officer actually attended the ceremony to collect the
prize (probably delighted that unlike the "laureates"
of last year's event in Austria, at least he would not receive live
cockroaches), and this unlucky winner took the opportunity to make some critical
remarks on the company's communications regarding the Windows
Media Player and Digital Restrictions (or, euphemistically, in his words: Rights) Management technologies which he deemed crucial for modern
business models, rather than acknowledging that it's in fact not just the advertising but the approach itself which is fundamentally flawed."
Big bread ago Microsoft [ update ]
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With the award of the Lifetime Award and the main price Microsoft is the clear winner of the Big of this year bread ago Award . The annually lent price for ignoring the data security was issued to the German address of Microsoft and should actually be lent Kurt Sibold. Instead of its the commisioner for data protection of Microsoft, Sascha Hanke, to Bielefeld came and took the price personally in receipt, a new fact in the history of the German Big bread ago Award. "we are not pleased of the jury" over the price, accept however the judgement, avowed Hanke. "for us the price shows that communication did not run over the function mode of the Windows Media Player and the function digitally of the Rights management optimally." Hanke stressed that it did not have new business models a chance without a system for the protection of digital media. "Microsoft is obligated to give to the Multimedia industry a solid basis on which it can prosper", to avowed Hanke opposite heise on-line. To Bielefeld it drove voluntarily, because each opportunity must be used to illuminate the position from Microsoft to.
In its Laudatio on the main winner jury member explained Patrick Goltzsch ( FITUG ) that Microsoft equal for several products "and consistent ignoring of standards" get the price. Begun with the on-line registration of Windows 98 over license control of the eBook reader up to the update politics of the Windows Media Player Microsoft everything did for the fact that from the general-purpose PC a copyright policeman becomes. At present only the DRM concept palladium recognizable in outlines is only the coronation/culmination. "Microsoft gave to us unstable operating systems, for an abundance at viruses the soil prepared and for a lack of standards provided. And now the users with the introduction are to be finally taken by DRM to the Gaengelband. That is price worthy."
To the Big of this year Award came bread ago about 100 useful suggestions, by which 8 was praemiert by the jury. To the long list of those, which went out empty, but with a "praising" mention, counted companies were considered nevertheless like Robert Bosch AG (for new monitoring technology), financial establishments like the Frankfurt savings bank of 1822 and those Hamburg Haspa (for unreasonable on-line trading conditions).
Also Juergen Buessow , the head of the provincial government von Duesseldorf, went out empty. But his colleague Fritz Behrens, Minister of the Interior von Nordrhein-Westfalen was honoured, with the "restaurant price". Behrens received the price also -- that is a new fact -- for the Herbeiluegen of successes. In a letter for video monitoring Behrens had stated the camera monitoring of the Ravensburger park in Bielefeld as proof for the success of such measures. As Laudator explained padeluun from the Foebud, the criminality took in the park before installation of the cameras, off simply because the park for the Expo was prepared. The Bielefelder example is suited in no case for a respectable evaluation. The fact that this from North-Rhine/Westphalia Minister of the Interior with wrong numbers overacted deficiency also the German authorities admits is shows an explanation, the Brandenburgi Minister of the Interior Joerg Schoenbohm let which spread. It started those few days ago country widely first long-term study to the "video protection", in which the data of different monitoring installations of the German Federal Republic are coordinated evaluated by the professional school of the police Brandenburg .
In the category "communication" was little surprisingly from the Upper House of Parliament adopted "externally stored data storage" of connecting data by the TK Provider of the receivers of the price. Which was meant for accounting purposes so far only, develop with the initiative of the Upper House of Parliament to a veritablen monitoring instance. Laudator Rolf Goessner pointed out that in the course of the Danish European Union presidency by the conservative Danish government a still far handing step was planned, externally stored data storage not only as right to fix but as obligation of all Provider. Goessner gave the speech in agency of the schleswig holsteinischen data-security commissioner Thilo Weichert, which was stuck on way of a conference of all German data-security commissioners to Trier in the back-up. Weichert reached Bielefeld briefly before end of the meeting, in order to be able to communicate to the applaudierenden participants that the German data-security commissioners in a resolution reject supply storage as unconstitutional. "the times become more rauer. It is to be seen clear that the winners of this year earned the Big bread ago Award more strongly than the winners of the last yearly ", summarized Weichert its impression.
For the attempt to approve the so-called raster search also without judicial resolution and without concrete danger situation the hessian Minister of the Interior Volker Bouffier received the Award in the category "politics". Before 25 years the negative raster search practiced for the first time works with the data of all citizens, who are sieved until the bad ones are separate from the good ones. Such a comprehensive method should be permitted so far only in special danger situations and with judicial permission. The hessian Minister of the Interior kept the price representative of the attempts of all Ministers of the Interior to make the raster search a normal search. The methods of the investigators played also in the category "authorities and administration" a price-worthy role. The Federal Criminal Investigation Office Wiesbaden received the price in this section for its effort, the group files LIMO (force author left), to lead REMO (force author of right) and AUMO (politically motivated foreigner criminality). These files do not store yet remarkable persons become, from whom it is to be assumed that they could commit in the future criminal offences. Which today like an anticipated Minority report constitutes itself, by the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations it is internationally sent away and is to have been causally responsible for the fact that to the G-8-Gipfel to Genova travelers persons were suddenly refused in the year 2001 as "police well-known" the departure from Germany.
Also in the category technology went the Big to Award bread ago into the future: The coming system of the truck duty , which is installed shortly country widely by the citizens of Berlin company TollCollect, proved according to opinion of the jury as price worthy. The increasing trend to subcontractors in the forwarding trade with only one truck would run out on it that not the settlement dates, but actually transaction data of a driver were seized, so the reason. Like the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations, then the Laudator prognosticated franc rose-refined from the CCC: "we foresee that the motorway toll is introduced also for passenger vehicles and the massive processing of transaction data comes." More convincingly there the winners were in the categories "working sphere" and "consumer protection", formerly led as "Business and finances". Of companies such as DaimlerChrysler, Bosch, BASF and most kept those representative to Bavarian AG the price for practice to submit applicants to a drug test. Thus the enterprises hardly received usable data, but communicated to the beginner, "you no secrets before us will have", to avowed Laudatorin Rena tangent. Load and emergency leases can the German post office about a Big Award be pleased bread ago, because their practice of the application to forward mail leads to the fact that address data can be used better ever by address dealers.
By the Big bread ago Awards is to become after the will of the organizers "the abstract topic data security interesting and public effective". Circumstances, which were connected with data security and the "Datenkraken", became "descriptive and generally understandable" because of the concrete examples, which supplied the prices. In the past year the main price went at Federals Minister of the Interior Otto Schily.
In Austria the Big is lent bread ago Award on Saturday, in Switzerland on Tuesday coming week. For the first time the Big Brother price was lent on 26 October 1998 in London. In the meantime it is lent annually in nine countries to those, which made themselves "earned" around the injury of the privatsphaere at most. In some countries also positive prices lent to those, which used themselves at the strongest for retaining the privatsphaere -- in Spain the German data security initiative stop 1984 received straight such a positive price .
The jury from Foebud (association for the promotion of the public moved and motionless data traffic e.V.), chaos computer club ( CCC ), German federation for data security ( DVD ), which FifF and the promotion association information technology and society (FITUG) distinguished alternative computer scientist federation as "Protagonisten of the monitoring company" and with it a winner of the BigBrotherAwards in Germany in detail:
Microsoft receives the Lifetime Award "because of the summation of Privacy problems over many years." This price is at the same time the main price of the Big bread ago Awards of the yearly 2002 "particularly for earnings/services during the surface covering introduction of control technology for copyrights: Digitally Rights management ".
Bavarian receives bread ago Award in the category " working sphere" to the Big for "their humiliating practice to submit training before the attitude to a Drogenscreening in such a way specified".
Fritz Behrens , Minister of the Interior of the country North Rhine-Westphalia, receives the regional price "for his attempt to launch in obscure way a novella of the police regulation of the country North-Rhine/Westphalia with video and/or camera-supported monitoring the oe *** TRANSLATION ENDS HERE ***ffentlicher Plä tze im Bundesland m ö glich werden sollen".
Die Deutsche Post erh ä lt den Preis in der Kategorie "Verbraucherschutz" "wegen ihres datenschutzwidrigen Umgangs mit Adressangaben aus den Post-Nachsendeantr ä gen".
Volker Bouffier , Hessischen Innenminister, erh ä lt den Big Brother Award in der Kategorie "Politik" , da das Innenministerium "unter der Leitung von Herrn Bouffier eine Polizeirechtsnovelle zu verantworten [hat], mit der die Voraussetzungen zur Rasterfahndung erheblich herabgesetzt wurden".
Der Deutsche Bundesrat erh ä lt die Auszeichnung in der Kategorie "Kommunikation" "f ü r seinen Beschluss, Telekommunikations(dienste)anbieter zu verpflichten, die Verbindungsdaten von Nutzenden f ü r eine nicht festgelegte Dauer f ü r Zwecke von Polizei und Geheimdiensten auf Vorrat zu speichern".
Die Toll Collect GmbH erh ä lt den Big Brother Award in der Kategorie "Technik , "da mit der satellitengest ü tzten Erhebung und zentralen Verarbeitung der Bewegungsdaten von Kraftfahrzeugen eine neue Dimension der Beobachtung von Verkehrsteilnehmern m ö glich wird".
Das Bundeskriminalamt erh ä lt den Preis in der Kategorie "Beh ö rden und Verwaltung" , "weil das Amt seit 2001 im Zusammenhang mit drei neu eingerichteten Pr ä ventiv-Dateien gegen das informationelle Selbstbestimmungsrecht der darin erfassten Personen verst ö ß t".
Zu den BigBrotherAwards in Deutschland siehe auch:
Preis f ü r Datenkraken in Telepolis.
( Detlef Borchers ) / ( jk
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