Big Brother Award (United States of America)
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The Big Brother Award (United States of America) is the American version of the international Big Brother Award. The "prize" is given annually to authorities, companies, organizations, and individuals that have done the most to threaten or violate people's privacy, or that have disclosed people's personal data to third parties.
The award is intended to draw public attention to privacy issues and related alarming trends in society, especially in data privacy.
It is named after the George Orwell character of Big Brother from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where all persons are subjected to total and ruthless supervision in a totalitarian state supposedly controlled by that character.
