Big Brother Awards 2007
2007/09/23 filed under /news
Every year, the Big Brother Awards are given to persons, companies and governmental organizations that blatantly violate, ignore or disregard privacy. Of course, the name of the award is taken directly out of Orwell's 1984 (as is the image of the award itself, I assume ;-)
I, as one of the last Mohican's who value privacy over terrorism
FUD safety, was pleased
to see the results of the category "Persons". This year, the
award went to "the Dutch citizen". The jury felt
the Dutch citizens were the biggest threat to their own privacy
out of disinterest and the "I've got nothing to hide" point
of view.
Wholeheartedly I applaud this award for I claim for years that no one cares about privacy anymore. Only a few people see that PGP/GPG encrypted mail is useful, regardless of having something to hide. People dump their entire life on facebook, myspace or any of the other completely useless sites and people just don't seem to care (or even know about) data retention proposals and/or laws. A lot of people don't care about mandatory identification laws and the list goes on and on.
I accept the award on behalf of my uninterested countrymen. Hopefully it does make the news (besides the geeky RSS feeds ;-)
