Big Brother Awards for Privacy Invaders

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Big Brother Awards for Privacy Invaders

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 5, 2004 @05:56AM from the put-on-your-foil-hats dept.

Dozix007 writes "The Register reports that the shortlist for this year's Big Brother awards for nasty privacy invaders has been released. The awards include: Worst Public Servant, Most Invasive Company, Most Appalling Project, Most Heinous Government Organisation and Lifetime Menace Award - now renamed the David Blunkett Lifetime Menace Award. Pressure group Privacy International, which organises the awards, said it was overwhelmed by nominations for Blunkett, the Home Office and national ID cards but they had been recognised in previous years."

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I didn't believe I could win! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-05 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny

But I'd like to thank my parents, George W. Bush, that Senator that beat me after he died, Bob Jones University, Muslims all over the world, and of course God, for making this possible!

John Ashcroft
1. Re:I didn't believe I could win! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-05 06:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  and of course God, for making this possible! -- John Ashcroft
  1. It's a British site, so you're not nominated.
  2. Look up Matthew 25:12. I always get blamed for things I had nothing to do with....
  God
2. Re:I didn't believe I could win! by dmaxwell · 2004-07-05 07:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Well God this fellow is apparantly laboring under the delusion that he's one your boys. Hows about a lightning bolt or two to disabuse him of the notion? Nothing fatal mind you, just a "sign" that even he can't miss.
  
  If that doesn't work, those cartoon trapdoors that lead straight to the hotplace are pretty funny. Let him hover a second or two over it so the paprazzi can get a nice wild take shot.
  
  Ah just forget it. The devil would probably toss him back out the trapdoor for being a takeover risk.
3. Re:I didn't believe I could win! by Julia+Cameron · 2004-07-05 07:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  1. It's a British site, so you're not nominated.
  2. Look up Matthew 25:12. I always get blamed for things I had nothing to do with....
  God
  
  Dear God,
  Stop whingeing. If you're really God, you're omnipotent and can do anything you want. Clearly, you're an underachiever.
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  Julia Cameron
  Oich ù agus hiùraibh éile
I know... by Zorak+Man · 2004-07-05 06:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm sure MS will be on that list. They managed to get an OS on my computer that I didn't want.

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Just a thought... by Munelight · 2004-07-05 06:05 · Score: 5, Funny

"If you are interested in attending the awards you need to register at UKBBA@privacy.org"

I wonder if you have to give them your real name. :)
The Title by Zorilla · 2004-07-05 06:07 · Score: 3, Funny

News Article Title: Big Brother Awards for Privacy Invaders

What's wrong with this title, people?

"Hello, Big Brother? I'd like to report YOU! Oh, hang on, there's somebody at my door."

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It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Ok, one question ... by spellraiser · 2004-07-05 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Contenders for Worst Public Servant are Margaret Hodge for her support for a database of children and "good behaviour" orders for children as young as eight.
So, how come Santa Claus is not on the shortlist? Let's put that #1 record keeper in the world on a list for a change. Let's see how he likes the taste of his own medicine!

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1. Re:Ok, one question ... by LostCluster · 2004-07-05 06:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Because he gives bribes to everybody he monitors.
Re:Privacy in the UK? by meringuoid · 2004-07-05 07:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Britons live in Orwell's 1984 made flesh.

Now, come on... Britain in 1984 was not only a privacy-free surveillance state, it was completely cut off from the rest of Europe and locked into a destructive alliance with the United States. You're exaggerating things enormously here.

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Re:Privacy in the UK? by Timmmm · 2004-07-05 08:30 · Score: 2, Funny

And letting big brother monitor everything you do in return for good programming

That doesn't remotely make sense. And besides, big brother is a Channel 4 programme - they don't get any of the TV liscence money.