Big Brother Awards

[Belgabor]

I'm sure most of you know the Darwin Awards, but do you know the Big Brother Awards? I was half starting to laugh when I read the name, but soon stopped when I read what they were given for. To make it short, they are given for infringements on personal privacy by various sources.
I reagard the information presented there as highly informative, if not even vital...

They are awarded in
Germany (http://www.bigbrotherawards.de) (Might be interesting for anyone, since the US Government got an award this year. Unfortunately the 2003 awards are not yet translated. Heres a (bad) Babelfish translation (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?tt=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.big-brother-award.de%2F2003%2F.gov%2F&lp=de_en))
Australia (http://privacy.org.au/bba/)
Denmark (http://www.bigbrotherawards.dk/)
France (http://lambda.eu.org/bigbros/)
Belgium (http://www.be.bigbrotherawards.org/)
UK (http://www.privacyinternational.org/)
Netherlands (http://www.bigbrotherawards.nl/)
Italy (sorry, no link for that)
Japan (http://bigbrotherjapan.info/)
Finland (http://www.effi.org/bb.html)
Austria (http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/)
Swiss (http://www.bigbrotherawards.ch/)
Spain (http://www.bigbrotherawards-es.org/)
Ukraine (sorry, no link either)
Hungary (http://www.bigbrotherawards.hu/)
USA/Canada (http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/us2000/)
Bulgaria (http://bg.bigbrotherawards.org/)

Belgabor

Added Bulgaria

[Mug Funky]

thanks for that!

i've heard good things about australia's privacy (sounds so similar to piracy) laws that have recently come into effect. good to see the government on at least one level looking out for it's citizens (political discussion is not the purpose of this forum, so i'll force myself not to mention some other stuff i could say about my government).