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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. Contrary to popular belief... by Gortbusters.org · · Score: 3, Informative

    The most invasive company was Capita, a data management business that develops the software used in many of the government's data-mining schemes.

    Try again next year MS!

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  2. Stand recognised by Jim+the+Bad · · Score: 3, Informative

    Glad to see Stand got a 'Winston'. Long overdue.

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  3. Re:Worst public servant by oliverthered · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't think you fully understand, Livingston said that the Cameras were duel purpose
    1: the traffic thing, fair enough I say, more people should work from home.

    2: the we will use face recognition and catch everyone and anyone(evil nasty terrorists) in our security ring.

    That's an breach of privacy and trust.

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