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2003 Big Brother Awards

Posted by timothy on from the good-year-for-the-war-buffs dept.

MacRonin writes "Privacy International today announced the winners of the 2003 Big Brother Awards. One of the judges, estimable Dr Ian Brown of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), writes: "It was alternatively amusing and depressing to be one of the judges for these awards. RIP and data retention played a large part in our deliberations..." ... Read more at The Register (UK) - 2003 Big Brother Awards: The Winners. and Political News from Wired News - Blair Tagged as Privacy Threat."

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  1. The really scary thing about Blair by Moderation+abuser · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Other than he's a complete muppet with nuclear weapons...

    He actually believes absolutely in the good guys vs the bad guys and that he's one of the good guys.

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    Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
  2. Your stupid hatred for the US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The reason the brits hate us is because they
    got their ass whipped by us years ago. The
    government has more sense than it's population at
    this time.

    The French abandonned the French settlers
    to the brits in America for the same reason that
    they are refusing to help America now.

    It was for greed then and it for greed today.
    It was Africa and Asia, now it is the middle east.