BBA France - 4 mai 2007
Le 2 mai dernier à Montréal, Privacy International organisait les
premiers Big Brother Awards au niveau international dont le palmarès
apparait comme suit en anglais.
Les gagnants sont:
- Entreprises : la compagnie de base de
données Choicepoint, pour revendre sans scrupules des données
personnelles au plus offrant;
- Personnage public : Stewart Baker, ancien
directeur juridique de l'agence de renseignement National Security
Agency, maintenant sous-ministre à la Sécurité Intérieur des
Etats-Unis, qui participé à la plupart des politiques de surveillance
aux USA et a récemment contribué au transfert illégal de données PNR
des citoyens européens (fichier passagers des compagnies aériennes);
- Gouvernement : le Royaume-Uni, pour être
devenue la plus importante société de surveillance parmi les pays
démocratiques, rivalisant avec la Malaysie, la Chine ou la Russie, ett
encourageant les autres pays de l'Union européenne à suivre son exemple;
- Le projet ou la technologie : l'Organisation de l'aviation civile
internationale (dépendant de l'ONU), pour avoir mis en place de manière
opaque une multitude de mesures liberticides, comme l'introduction de
passeports biométriques ou de transfert de données des passagers
aériens.
- 'Lifetime Menace Award' : les partisans
de la théorie du "bien commun", et la philosophie du "communautarisme"
au sens anglo-saxon. A l'origine de la plupart des lois sécuritaires
adoptées de part le monde, cette philosophie accorderait à une
communauté plus d'importance qu'à l'individu, lequel étant contraint de
se soumettre
aux intérêts de cette communauté pour qu'il accepte que lui soit déniés
ses droits
individuels.
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Privacy International announces global
privacy invaders
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-553112
02/05/2007
In an event in Montreal, Canada, Privacy International ran the first
International Big Brothers Awards ceremony. At the 'Computers,
Freedom and Privacy'
(off-site) conference, with over 200 attendees, PI outed the most
invasive companies, projects, officials, and governments. A special
award for the 'Lifetime Menace' was also announced.
Background
PI's 'Big Brother Awards' have been running for nearly ten years,
with events run in eighteen countries around the world. Government
institutions and companies have been named and shamed as privacy
invaders in a variety of countries and contexts.
This year was the first time that Privacy International ran an
international event to identify the greatest invaders around the world.
The event was hosted by 'the pope', as presented by Simon Davies in
full regalia. Previous hosts include 'Dr. Evil' and 'The Queen of
England'.
Nominees and Winners
After reviewing the variety of nominations received from around the
world, Privacy International and leading international privacy experts
selected the following nominees and winners in the following
categories:
Most invasive company
Nominees
- Google, for their retention practices and their purchase of
Doubleclick, an on-line marketing and profiling firm
- Choicepoint, for their vast databases of personal data, sold to
nearly anyone who wishes to pay
- SWIFT, the international banking co-operative for sharing
personal financial transactions with the U.S. government
- Booz Allen Hamilton, the international consultancy, for taking
the
knowledge and contacts of their senior executives, mostly from U.S.
intelligence agencies, to sell and share their experiences with firms
and governments around the world
Winner: Choicepoint
Worst Public Official
Nominees
- Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Britain, for his relentless work
over
ten years to expand the UK into the greatest surveillance society
amongst democratic nations
- Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, for
returning
the surveillance policies of his nation to the age of the Cold War
- Stewart Baker, former general counsel for the National Security
Agency and now undersecretary for policy at the Department of Homeland
Security, behind and at the forefront of most disastrous U.S.
surveillance policies, most recently the EU-U.S. agreement on Passenger
Name Records transfers
- Alberto Gonzales, current Attorney General for the U.S., for
pushing expansive interpretations of the U.S. Constitution in order to
create new powers for the Bush Administration without Congressional
authorisation and judicial oversight
Winner: Stewart Baker
Most Heinous Government
Nominees
- China, for implementing even greater surveillance policies and
continues its oppression of various groups, and moves towards the
international stage with the Beijing Olympics with additional
surveillance schemes
- The U.S., for leading the world down the path of greater
surveillance and its disastrous influence on policy and technology
- The United Kingdom, for being the greatest surveillance society
amongst democratic nations, rivaling only Malaysia, China and Russia as
it also leads other countries across the EU down its same path
- Tunisia, for being stupid enough to have invasive and despotic
practices even while hosting a UN summit on the information society,
and then oppressing guests and groups from around the world while in
the public eye
- The European Union, for pretending to be founded upon a bedrock
of
civil liberties and fundamental rights but then spending decades
establishing invasive policies without any democratic oversight
Winner: The United Kingdom (for more information please see Taking Liberties documentary
(off-site))
Most Appalling Project or Technology
Nominees
- U.S. Border Policy, and most recently the Western Hemisphere
Travel
Initiative, for fingerprinting visitors from around the world while
hoisting fingerprinting and ID card programmes upon citizens around the
world, including Americans
- International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency, for
implementing a variety of invasive policies behind closed doors,
including the 'biometric passport' and passenger data transfer-deals
- India's Ministry for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
for
requiring government employees to disclose their menstrual cycles on
job appraisal forms
- the CCTV industry, for promoting a technologically 'effective'
policy around the world despite all the evidence to the contrary
Winner: The International Civil Aviation Organization
Lifetime Menace Award
Nominees
- The Biometrics Industry, for selling a limited technology to
governments and public institutions around the world, promising much
while delivering very little except for minimisation of personal privacy
- The Military Industrial Complex, for being behind almost every
invasive surveillance policy around the world, where we showed the
example of General Dynamics, contractor to a variety of governments,
who own companies such as Anteon (UK) who in turn own 'Vericool' (UK)
who is responsible for selling surveillance technologies to schools
that want to fingerprint their students to verify class registries,
library privileges, and cafeteria purchases
- The Intellectual Property Industry, for promoting and pushing
invasive policies around the world in order to keep track of the habits
of on-line users to pursue their agenda of 'protecting' content
- Communitarianism and the proponents of the 'Common Good', because
every bad policy around the world is justified based on the philosophy
that is good for society and the individual must sacrifice his or her
selfish rights in favour of the needs of the many
Winner: The 'Common Good'
Winners were given the classic BBA award, a golden statue of a boot
stamping upon a human head, as promised by George Orwell in 1984 on a
vision for the future.
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