Annual Big Brother Award Winners Announced

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."

Comments

Re:U.S.-Visit?

[zors]

Well, to be fair, that was being applied only to US citizens, which is blatantly vindictive. Not that i agree with our program (or disagree even) but there is a difference. I dont think we would have made any stink about the brazilian measures if they had been blanketed over all foreigners like ours.

Re:I'm disappointed..

[danila]

Fidel Castro is not that bad. Neither is Cuba. After all, do all American children get free milk until they are six? Do they get free college courses on television? Though so.

As for Kim Jong Il and Robert Mugabe, they are not "public servants", they are more like dictators - that's a different category, since dictators are not supposed to worry about some pesky privacy laws.