Re: [London, 25.3.] 5th UK Big Brother Awards

[Peter Kuhm <peter@null.priv.at>]

Die Gewinner -> http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/uk2003/


s.a. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,922483,00.html

(thx 2 Daniel Boos)

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Home office attacks "malicious" awards 
 
Officials hit out at awards after Blunkett and Livingstone are accused of 
invading privacy 
 
SA Mathieson
Wednesday March 26, 2003 
 
 Civil liberties campaign group Privacy International has been attacked by the 
Home Office and by London mayor Ken Livingstone's staff, for what they see as 
unfair criticism of their records on privacy.

Privacy International last night held a party to mark its fifth annual Big 
Brother awards, given to people and organisations it judges to have invaded 
privacy.

A representative of the Home Office attended the event, but did not take the 
special award for David Blunkett: a (fake) dog poo on a stick. The home 
secretary has been a long-time target for privacy campaigners, as a result of 
his support for schemes such as entitlement cards.

"These are silly and malicious awards which have rightly been ignored by most 
people," said a Home Office press officer. She pointed to Mr Blunkett's 
introduction to the consultation on revised plans for government access to 
communications data, such as telephone bills and email headers. The original 
draft order drew heavy criticism last summer.

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