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Big Brother Award
The Big Brother Awards (BBAs) recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy". They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. They are awarded yearly to authorities, companies, organizations, and persons that have been acting particularly and consistently to threaten or violate people's privacy, or disclosed people's personal data to third parties. The awards are intended to draw public attention to privacy issues and related alarming trends in society, especially in data privacy. The contest is organized by loose coalition of nongovernmental organizations, including Iuridicum Remedium, Privacy International, and others, although some national-level BBAs are organized by specific sponsors. The German Big Brother Awards are organized and hosted by Digitalcourage (formerly FoeBuD) in Bielefeld. The United States most recently hosted its Big Brother Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BigBrotherAwards2008
The Big Brother Awards (BBAs) recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy". They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. They are awarded yearly to authorities, companies, organizations, and persons that have been acting particularly and consistently to threaten or violate people's privacy, or disclosed people's personal data to third parties. The awards are intended to draw public attention to privacy issues and related alarming trends in society, especially in data privacy. The contest is organized by loose coalition of nongovernmental organizations, including Iuridicum Remedium, Privacy International, and others, although some national-level BBAs are organized by specific sponsors. The German Big Brother Awards are organized and hosted by Digitalcourage (formerly FoeBuD) in Bielefeld. The United States most recently hosted its Big Brother Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Davies (privacy Advocate)
Simon Davies is a British privacy advocate and academic from Australia, formerly based in London, UK. Davies was one of the first campaigners in the field of international privacy advocacy, founding the watchdog organisation Privacy International in 1990 and subsequently working in emerging areas of privacy such as electronic visual surveillance, identity systems, border security, encryption policy and biometrics. In July 2008 Davies criticised the Stranton landmark ''Viacom vs. Google & YouTube'' ruling, stating the privacy of millions of YouTube users was threatened: 'The chickens have come home to roost for Google. Their arrogance and refusal to listen to friendly advice has resulted in the privacy of tens of millions being placed under threat. Governments and organisations are realising that companies like Google have a warehouse full of data. And while that data is stored it is under threat of being used and putting privacy in danger.' Davies was also listed as current chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Surveillance
Global mass surveillance can be defined as the mass surveillance of entire populations across national borders. Its existence was not widely acknowledged by governments and the mainstream media until the global surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden triggered a debate about the right to privacy in the Digital Age. Its roots can be traced back to the middle of the 20th century when the UKUSA Agreement was jointly enacted by the United Kingdom and the United States, which later expanded to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to create the present Five Eyes alliance. The alliance developed cooperation arrangements with several "third-party" nations. Eventually, this resulted in the establishment of a global surveillance network, code-named "ECHELON" (1971). Historical background The origins of global surveillance can be traced back to the late 1940s after the UKUSA Agreement was collaboratively enacted by the United Kingdom and the United States, which eventually culmina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espionage
Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangible benefit. A person who commits espionage is called an ''espionage agent'' or ''spy''. Any individual or spy ring (a cooperating group of spies), in the service of a government, company, criminal organization, or independent operation, can commit espionage. The practice is clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome. In some circumstances, it may be a legal tool of law enforcement and in others, it may be illegal and punishable by law. Espionage is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern. However, the term tends to be associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies for military purposes. Spying involving corporations is known as industrial espionage. One of the most effective ways to gath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orwell Award
The NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language (the Orwell Award for short), is an award given since 1975 by the Public Language Award Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English. It is awarded annually to "writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse." Noam Chomsky, Donald Barlett, and James B. Steele are the only recipients to have won twice. Its negative counterpart, awarded by the same body, is the Doublespeak Award, "an ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered." Winners 1970s *1975: David Wise for ''The Politics of Lying'' *1976: Hugh Rank for the "Intensify/Downplay" schema for analyzing communication, persuasion, and propaganda *1977: Walter Pincus, ''Washington Post'' "A patient, methodical journalist who knew his job and who knew the jargon of Washington. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Surveillance
Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens. The surveillance is often carried out by local and federal governments or governmental organizations, such as organizations like the NSA, but it may also be carried out by corporations (either on behalf of governments or at their own initiative). Depending on each nation's laws and judicial systems, the legality of and the permission required to engage in mass surveillance varies. It is the single most indicative distinguishing trait of totalitarian regimes. It is also often distinguished from targeted surveillance. Mass surveillance has often been cited as necessary to fight terrorism, prevent crime and social unrest, protect national security, and control the population. At the same time, mass surveillance has equally often been criticized for violating privacy rights, limiting civil and political rights and freedoms, and being il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandeis Award (privacy)
The Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award is named in honor of US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and awarded by Patient Privacy Rights, the top US health privacy watchdog, representing the public's rights and interests in restoring control over the use of medical records/health data. It recognizes "significant intellectual, cultural, legal, scholarly, and technical contributions to the field of health information privacy." (In his 1928 dissent to ''Olmstead v. United States'', Brandeis famously defined privacy as "the right to be left alone.") Recipients include the following. *2012: Representative Joe Barton. Representative Ed Markey, Ross J. Anderson, Alan Westin *2013: Peter Hustinx, Mark Rothstein *2014: Latanya Sweeney, Peter Schaar *2015: Alex Pentland, Masao Horibe *2016: Joe Cannataci *2017: Nikolaus Forgo Privacy International, a UK privacy activist organization, also has its own Louis Brandeis Award for privacy. See also * List of humanitarian and service aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Brother Awards (United Kingdom)
The Big Brother Awards (the Winston Awards) for the United Kingdom 2008 A single Big Brother award was won by New Labour.Big Brother awards 2008 results last visited 7 January 2009 ;2008 Winston Awards * Baroness Sarah Ludford * Phil Booth, National Coordinator of * , Executive Director of |
Bits Of Freedom
Bits Of Freedom is an independent Dutch digital rights foundation, which focuses on privacy and communications freedom in the digital age. The foundation protects the right for privacy and the right to communications freedom in the Netherlands. Bits of Freedom started in 2000 and had a break between 2006 and August 2009 due to lack of funding. On August 14, 2009, Bits of Freedom continued its activities with funding provided by the Internet4All Foundation. Bits of Freedom organizes the Dutch version of the Big Brother Awards, initiated European cooperation between digital rights watch foundations in European Digital Rights (EDRI) and collects information about data leaks in the Netherlands to raise awareness of the potential dangers of increasing collection of data. The Multatuli Project The Multatuli Project, subtitled ''ISP Notice and take down'', was the title of an experiment done by members of the Bits of Freedom group in the summer of 2004. The group uploaded excerpts from Mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Brother Awards (Finland)
{{Unreferenced, date=January 2010 The Big Brother Awards in Finland is the version of the international Privacy International's Big Brother Awards by Electronic Frontier Finland. The purpose of the Big Brother Awards is to draw attention to the violations of privacy that have occurred in society. In year 2008 there were awards in three categories: personal, the government and private sector organization. In Finland, together with Big Brother Awards, there is also a positive nomination that is named after Winston Smith from George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four. This award is given to a person who or an organization which has advanced privacy protection Privacy engineering is an emerging field of engineering which aims to provide methodologies, tools, and techniques to ensure systems provide acceptable levels of privacy. In the US, an acceptable level of privacy is defined in terms of compliance ... and democracy most during the year. Big Brother Awards in Finland have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
