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| [Nettime-bold] Paris, 16 décembre ZeligConf - French Big Brother Awards 2000 ! |
Paris, 16 décembre ZeligConf - French Big Brother Awards 2000 ! 16 november 2000. -- The first french Big Brother Awards will be bestowed at a special event on 16 December in Paris. "Voltaire" awards will also be given to individuals and organisations which have made an outstanding contribution to the protection of privacy, as well as to people who have been victims of privacy invasion. An open "Orwell Party", during the zeligConf, european meeting of digital counter-cultures, will host the ceremony. Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, will attend to the parisian's Orwell Party. The awards will be judged by a panel of experts, comprising lawyers, academics, consultants, journalists and civil rights activists. Each year, the members and affiliated organizations of Privacy International present the "Big Brother" awards to the government and private sector organizations which have done the most to threaten personal privacy in their countries. "Big Brother" awards are presented to the government agencies, companies and initiatives which have done most to invade personal privacy. A "lifetime achievement" award is also presented. Awards are also be given to individuals and organizations which have made an outstanding contribution to the protection of privacy. Big Brother Awards have already been delivered in the United Kingdom (1998, 1999), USA (1999, 2000), Austria (1999, 2000), Switzerland and Germany (2000), and next year in Nederlands and Australia. More information on : French Big Brother Awards' website : http://www.bigbrotherawards.eu.org bigbrotherawards@internatif.org Big Brother Awards International: http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/ Allemagne: http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/ Autriche: http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/ Suisse: http://www.bigbrotherawards.ch/ zeligConf: http://www.samizdat.net/zelig/ - rosta - cybertovaritch lost in cyberspace rosta@free.fr _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold