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Annual Big Brother Award Winners Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the or-would-they-be-losers dept.

SteamyMobile writes "Privacy International announced its Sixth Annual Big Brother awards today. These are awards given to the governments, business and individuals who are doing the most to bring us closer to Orwell's world of 1984. Normally this award is reserved for the British, but there are so many great candidates from other countries this year that they had to acknowledge that. So, who won, and who shall we nominate for next year? This certainly is an area with some tough competition lately."

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  1. Re:My favourites by 91degrees · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    British gas, I put down to incompetent big businesses. They didn't have any procedures in place to check whether their customers may die of cold.

    And while we're at it, the pensioners did have 3 months to alert the authorities themselves. They were cut off in August.

  2. Re:I'm disappointed.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Flamebait??
    Yes, because pointing out the flaws in Communism which is responsible for 100 million + deaths, is not a worthy cause. Pointing out companies/govt. agencies that recklessly use surveillance and personal information, now that's something we can ALL get behind.