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Big Brother Awards for Privacy Invaders

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Most Invasive Company - LloydsTSB ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The bank insists "that customers report to a branch with documents to prove their identities".

    The article does not explain under what circumstances the bank requires this, perhaps to open an account.

    So why is this invasive? Would the judges rather have the bank naively believe anything a potential con-artist tells them over the phone?

    In this age of identity theft, this might be a bank to consider. Apparently, they take a persons true identity seriously.