Big Brother Award (Australia)

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Big Brother Award
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[edit] Overview

Since 1998, over 50 Big Brother Awards ceremonies have been held in 16 countries. They are presented around the world by the national members and affiliated organisations of Privacy International to corporations, public officials and governments that have shown a blatant disregard for privacy, those who have done the most to threaten personal privacy in their countries.

The Australian Big Brother Awards (the "Orwells"), hosted by the Australian Privacy Foundation, were established in 2003. The awards also feature categories for individuals and organisations who have made a major positive contribution to protecting the privacy of Australians.

[edit] Nomination Process

Nominations for the awards are solicited from the public either by mail or email to the APF (Australian Privacy Foundation). Nominations are then forwarded to a panel of judges who identify winners in each category. The judges have absolute discretion, and are not confined to the nominations received by members of the public. The winners are announced at a ceremony.

[edit] The Award Categories

The Big Brother Awards for privacy invaders ('The Orwells')

  1. Lifetime Menace – for a privacy invader with a long record of profound disregard for privacy.
  2. Greatest Corporate Invader – for a corporation that has shown a blatant disregard of privacy.
  3. Worst Public Agency or Official – for a government agency or official that has shown a blatant disregard of privacy.
  4. Most Invasive Technology – for a technology that is particularly privacy invasive.
  5. Boot in the Mouth – for the ‘best’ (most appalling!) quote on a privacy-related topic.
  6. People’s Choice – this is decided by popular vote, and given to the individual or organisation most frequently nominated by the public.

The ‘Smith’ Awards for privacy defenders

  1. Best Privacy Guardian – for a meritorious act of privacy protection or defence.
  2. Lifetime Achievement – for provision of outstanding services to privacy protection.

[edit] Previous Winners

[edit] 2006

[1]

Greatest Corporate Invader Award Australian banks For continuing to send personal information to the worldwide financial messaging service SWIFT even after confirmation that the information was being provided to US national security agencies.
Worst Public Agency or Official Award Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison For the ‘Abolition of Financial Privacy’ legislation, masquerading as the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Bill .
Most Invasive Technology NSW Department of Health For introducing the electronic health record system HealtheLink with only an opt-out for patients, overturning by Regulation the very clear opt-in requirement of the Health Privacy Law.
People’s Choice Award Joe Hockey, federal Minister for Human Services For the so–called ‘Access Card’ - a national ID card in disguise, for his refusal to release the privacy impact assessment on the Card, and for his rejection of key recommendations of his own Consumer and Privacy Task Force.
Best Privacy Guardian Lex Lasry QC and other defence lawyers For refusing to submit to stringent personal security clearances by ASIO when representing terrorist suspects as demanded by the Federal Attorney-General's department.

Note: No award for "Lifetime Menace" & "Lifetime Achievement" in 2006.

[edit] 2005

[2]

Lifetime Menace Award The NSW Government For failing to appoint a replacement Privacy Commissioner.
Greatest Corporate Invader Award Telstra For their Employee Monitoring and Surveillance procedure, which they not only admit but for which they have an official policy to excuse their behaviour.
Worst Public Agency or Official Award Senator Julian McGauran For disclosing personal details from a woman's medical file (concerning an abortion) in pursuit of an ideological agenda.
Most Invasive Technology Health Communications Network For allowing extraction of medical information from GP Computers.
Boot in the Mouth Senator Vanstone For proposing a national ID card to divert attention from the Cornelia Rau immigration bungle.
People’s Choice Award Australian Bureau of Statistics for: (a) trying to move the goal posts and become a data collection agency on the entire population – proposing to link census data on 100% of the population over time, retrospectively, and with data from other sources, and (b) thinking that initially doing the above for only 5% of the population is somehow OK.
Best Privacy Guardian ACT Chief Minister John Stanhope For standing up to the federal government and publishing the ‘confidential’ draft Anti-Terrorism Bill, which will authorise serious privacy intrusions, so that the community has a chance to consider and debate the proposed legislation.
Lifetime Achievement Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja for continually standing up for privacy – most recently by: initiating the Senate review of the Privacy Act, speaking out against the census proposal, calling for the deletion of the political party exemption from the Privacy Act, and speaking out against a national ID card.

See Media Release for detailed information.

[edit] 2004

[3]

Lifetime Menace Award Carl Scully, NSW Minister for Roads For numerous privacy invasions
People’s Choice Queensland Transport For its proposed smartcard driver’s licence. Also See,[1]
Greatest Corporate Invader Major political parties Both the Labor and Liberal parties, which operate increasingly as big businesses selling a product
Worst Public Agency or Official NSW Attorney General Bob Debus For numerous privacy invasions
Most Invasive Technology Biometric passports For the planned introduction by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) of biometric passports for all Australians, just because they will eventually be needed for people travelling to the United States.
Best Privacy Guardian John Pane, Chief Privacy Officer for Australia Post Considerable efforts to address the privacy concerns of post office box and locked bag customers following the use of their information for an Australia Post promotion earlier this year.

See Media Release for detailed information.

[edit] 2003

[4]

Lifetime Menace Award Attorney General, Daryl Williams For his long record of profound disregard for privacy.
Greatest corporate invader The Internet Industry Association (IIA) For its draft cybercrime code of practice.
Most invasive technology TICA Default Tenancy Control For brazen breaches of the privacy of tenants through the TICA tenancy database.
Worst public official Senator Chris Ellison For blatant disregard of privacy for his proposal to contravene the privacy principles with his proposal for a central electronic identification database of government information on all Australians.

See Media Release for detailed information.

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ http://www.privacy.org.au/bba/2006/2006_BBA_attachment.rtf, "Attachment to Australian Privacy Foundation Media Release on Big Brother Awards 2006", Australian Privacy Foundation
  2. ^ http://www.privacy.org.au/bba/2005/winners_announced.pdf, "MEDIA RELEASE: Worst privacy invaders named at Big Brother Awards", Australian Privacy Foundation, Tuesday 8 November 2005
  3. ^ http://www.privacy.org.au/bba/2004/BBA_winners_release041125.pdf, "MEDIA RELEASE: Australia’s worst privacy invaders named and shamed", Australian Privacy Foundation, Thursday 25 November 2004
  4. ^ http://www.privacy.org.au/Media/MR030908.pdf, "MEDIA RELEASE", Australian Privacy Foundation, 8th September 2003
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