Big Brother Award 2010

Again the choice is relevant,
 

Like every year, the Big Brother Awards elect the worst destroyers of privacy.

Companies as elected officials, especially in government, are among the less prestigious nominees: Facebook, TMG, Nadine Morano, ...

The appointment of a company or an individual to the Big Brother Awards nothing particularly rewarding. As every year, this competition aims to elect those who have done the most damage to the private sphere.
As for the Cannes Film Festival, the list of nominees was unveiled. There will be many of them again this year to claim titles that are not very prestigious (for elected officials), in categories such as the Internet.

Facebook and its "inconsequential" candidate users
In this category entitled “Special internet mention”, five contenders have been named. Unsurprisingly, we find companies that have been particularly decried in recent months for the lack of importance they place on the protection of privacy.

This is Google (nominated because of the about its CEO but also Buzz fiasco), in duet Trident Media Guard & Thierry Lhermitte (company selected by Hadopi and its actor shareholder), from Facebook but also of its users (“ naive and inconsequential “), Yellow Pages (which compiles the privacy of Internet users without their knowledge on 123people), and finally geolocation web services.

In the Orwell business category, private companies are nominated this time for the harmful use they make of certain technologies. Alcatel Shanghaï Bell is thus accused of having provided the Burmese authorities with equipment allowing mass surveillance of citizens' telephone and internet communications.
Monitoring by geolocation of 46 of its installers by Spie Communication earned him a nomination for the Big Brother Awards, and an appeal to the Cnil for invasion of privacy. 

In the States & elected officials category, few members of the French government escape nomination. Are thus named Frédéric Mitterrand for Hadopi, Nadine Morano for a student file, Brice Hortefeux for his fervent attachment to video surveillance, or even Roselyne Bachelot for an H1N1 file (personal and health data on vaccinated French people).


Source ZDnet