2003 Big Brother Awards

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 25, 2003 @04:48AM 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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Amateurs, all amateurs by burgburgburg · 2003-03-25 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny

A.G. John Ashcroft and crew: "Stop having thought crimes and we won't have to arrest you."
1. Re:Amateurs, all amateurs by Xrc65kl · 2003-03-25 06:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  >> A.G. John Ashcroft and crew: "Stop having thought crimes and we won't have to arrest you."
  Given Dubya's recent rhetoric on Iraq, shouldn't that be "...we won't be forced to arrest you" ?
Thank goodness by Linux-based-robots · 2003-03-25 04:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Thank goodness I live in the States where we don't have to worry about privacy issues! :P
Re:Across-the-Pond Comparison by Joe+the+Lesser · 2003-03-25 05:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, for starters, American children are implanted with ID tags, which broadcast things like name, address, and favorite foods.

In the name of homeland security, of course.

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In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-25 05:05 · Score: 1, Funny

Big brother is watched by YOU!
Re:Contrary to popular belief... by g_attrill · 2003-03-25 05:24 · Score: 2, Funny

http://www.capita.co.uk/

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Re:Security vs. Freedom by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-25 05:29 · Score: 1, Funny

Hopefully, they'll be Grammar Nazis, so I don't have to read idiotic, poorly worded and mispelled posts like this on Slashdot anymore! Good thing Slashdot is keeping records of all the atrocities carried out against the English language!
Which state is UK again? by YetAnotherName · 2003-03-25 06:17 · Score: 2, Funny

It's near Oklahoma and Utah, right? I mean, I hardly recognize this "Governor Tony Blair."

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