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Re: [Sofia, 18.1.] 1st BBA Bulgaria - Jury und Nominierungen



"1." ist jeweils als der tatsaechliche Gewinner seiner Kategorie zu verstehen.

Veni Markovski schreibt:

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here's today's top news from Bulgaria. The Winners in the Big Brother 
Awards Bulgaria (www.bg.bigbrotherawards.org) for 2002 are:


Person:

1. Minister of interior Mr. Georgi Petkanov, for the scandals with 
wiretaping some of his colleagues, the ex-President, members of the 
opposition parties, and normal citizens.

2. Secretary-chief of the interior General Borissov for claiming on his 
return from Germany that the police "should monitor all the Internet, as 
many crimes are committed there" and because he suggested that records
from surveilance should be kept "forever".

3. Director of the press-center of the government Ms. Tsvetelina Uzunova 
for not providing information under the Access to Public Information Law, 
even with a court decision


Communications/Technology

1. Mobiltel - the GSM operator who keeps records of all SMS sent through 
their system, in case "the authorities want to find out a customer who has 
been sending uncensured, vulgar, based on personal, religious, faith or 
political ground" (that's on their web site)

2. Bulgarian Telecom - for a number of case, among them revealing 
information to tax authorities without prior court order.

3. Sofia Water - for software bugs in calculation water spenditure


Business

1. register.bg - the .bg country-code top level domain administrator. 
because 2 men, alone and without public discussion and support have created 
the rules for .bg domain registraion and require detailed personal data 
from people willing to register a domain, which makes the process slow, 
expensive, esp. when compared to registration in .com, .net, .org, etc.

2. Radisson SAS hotel - for installing hidden cameras in the hotel without 
leaving a warning sign for the guests to know they have been taped.

3. Central Heating Sofia - for hiding information how they calculate the 
heating usage


Government

1. Interior Ministry for a number of cases, among them: Regional Shumen 
office - for confiscating the computer of a 17-year old High School student 
because his Windows was not bought by authorized reseller National Combat 
Unit against Organized Crime - for intruding into 26-year old Mr. Kolev's 
house. He was questioned, his computer - confiscated, and he - given to 
court, for creating a web site www.dskbank.com (under the name of a 
bulgarian bank), where he published the promise of the prime minister from 
his election campaign, that "every Bulgarian is entitled to receive a 
non-interest credit in the amount of USD 2,500".

2. Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications - for the proposed 
Telecommunications law, with a special chapter for police control over the 
Internet traffic in online and offline regime

3. Ministry of ecology - for denial of following a court decision from 
February 2002, forcing them to give public information to a citizen


Special award

to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria for the following 
two cases:

- The secret signing of the contract with the UK-based private company 
"Crown Agents" who are now scrutinizing the Bulgarian customs.

- The secret signing of the contract between the government and Microsoft 
for $ 13.6 Million for buying 30,000 copies of MS Windows and MS Office 
Professional at more than doubled price than the street one.


Positive award

To: Ms. Snezhanka Georgieva, head of the Civil Registry and Administrative 
Services of the Ministry of regional development, for continius attempts to 
stop publishing the social security numbers of the citizens on the election 
voters lists.


The jury consists of 7 people:

Ms. Gergana Juleva and Mr. Kashamov from the Access to Information project 
(www.aip-bg.org), Mr. Alexander Arabadjiev, former judge of the 
Constitutional court (wrote a lot of decisions on the freedom to access of 
information articles), Mr. Ivan Ivanov, speaker of the IT Development 
Association (www.arit-bg.org), Mr. Hristo Nikolov, journalist, 
www.segabg.com, Ms. Yana Ilieva, editor-in-chief www.portal.bg, and Veni 
Markovski, chairman of ISOC.bg and country coordinator of the Global 
Internet Policy Initiative (www.internetpolicy.net)

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