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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 even scarier thing is.. by JonnyCalcutta · · Score: 0, Troll
    His drooling idiot of a trans-Atlantic friend with even more nuclear weapons.

    Together they are the original odd couple
    'tum-tee-tum-tee-tum tum-tee-tum tum-tee-tuuum-tum'.

  2. Re:Privacy Now More Than Ever by Mac+Degger · · Score: 0, Troll

    What, you want grenade launchers too? How about a nice cozy Abrahms tank? Or a SCUD launcher? Or why not a nuke? I mean, you have a right to bear arms (although several courts are getting rather fed up by the fact that the ignorant public thinbk that the second amendment grants them the right to bear arms...it doesn't, as the supreme court has had to explain in exasperation many times over: google for it), so why not have a nuke? Or some anthrax? I mean, your government has that, so why shouldn't you?

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    -- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?