<nettime> WORLD-INFOFLASH-0.1-ONSURVEILLANCE

[julia lazarus <julia@t0.or.at>]

28-10-2000 
World-Information.Org
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WORLD-INFO FLASH  0.1    ON SURVEILLANCE 
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++ Big Brother Award Austria ++ EU Cyberright ++ 
Surveillance Camera Players ++ Interview with 
Nicky Hager ++ Links ++ http://world.information.org
compiled by World-Information.Org 

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THE BIG BROTHER AWARD 2000 AUSTRIA
26/10/2000 FLEX, Vienna - Coming to a place near you
+ Switzerland + Germany + France + United Kingdom + USA +
http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/

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++ SURVEILLANCE HAS MANY FACES, WE NAME THEM ++

As high speed communication networks spread over 
the globe, the private sphere of the individual 
is - for the sake of investigation and marketing, 
criminal justice and statistics - reduced to a 
precarious existence. Surveillance, operating 
discretely in the background, has become a common 
feature of the information society, which appears
to be striving towards a complete social and 
commercial control of each individual.

To raise awareness, each year a growing number 
of digital human rights organizations present the 
Big Brother Award to Government agencies and private 
companies, who have done their best to invade the 
Austrian citizens privacy. This yearīs Award has 
been presented by ARGE DATEN, Chello Usergroup, 
Public Netbase - Institute for New Culture 
Technologies, Quintessenz and VIBE!AT

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++ 26/10/2000 The Austrian Big Brother Award 2000 
Ceremony took place at Viennaīs most famous night-
club, the Flex,  ++  Here are the winners in the 
five categories of the Big Brother Award 2000 
Austria, and why they have been chosen by the jury ++

Business/Finances -  Saturn  - When paying with 
the EC-Card at the multimedia store "Saturn", 
customers unsuspectingly and irrevocably approve 
of their personal data "being forwarded".

Politics: -  AUF  - The Austrian police union 
affiliated to the FPOE "AUF" deliberately 
misappropriated data from the Department of the 
Interior to intimidate political opponents. 

Authorities and Administration -  Helmi  -  'Helmi' 
is the nickname for the anonymous Austrian trial 
witnesses, who, disguised with a helmet or facemask, 
have repeatedly appeared before the Austrian court. 
Based on nothing but "Helmiīs" statements, one 
person has already been sentenced to 1,5 year of 
prison. "Helmi" will be a case for the European 
Court for human rights.

Communication -  Austrian Siemens PSG  - In the 
SEC Lawfull Interception LI Team of the European 
Telecom Standards Institute [ETSI] technicians 
>from the Austrian Siemens Branch PSE und other 
international telecommunication companies 
work together with Police and Secret service 
contacts to specify the technical infrastructure 
and the interception interfaces of all future 
digital telephone nodes in Europe.

Lifetime Achievement -  Dieter Boehmdorfer - 
Austrian Minister of Justice. He used to be 
the legal adviser of the FPOe. In his position 
as the lawyer of the FPOe, he filed numerous 
cases against journalists and other critics 
of the FPOe. In some instances he evidently 
made use of confidential sources of the Austrian
police database. 

And at last the Public Award went to the - FPOe  - 
for known and well documented reasons. 

In spite of the polite invitations by the 
organizers, none of the proud and deserving 
winners appeared in person at the award ceremony. 
Instead, the Big Brother Awards were given to 
trustworthy representatives, to be handed to 
the winners at another occasion. But the story 
took a different turn: 

Later that evening the Big Brother Awards, 
six metallic robot dogs, were drowned in the 
nearby river by the cheering audience. 

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List of the nominees, who didnīt receive an award:
amazon.AT/American Express/SkiData AG/SPOe-Graz/
Minister of Interier Ernst Strasser/Peter Westenthaler
and Andreas Kohl/Austrian Justice Authorities/
the Masked Police Officers/Johann Szilvassy/Chello/ 
jet2web/A1, max, ONE, tele.ring/Neue Kronen-Zeitung/
Michael Sika/ Austrian Military Intelligence Office

We wish them good luck for the next yearīs Big 
Brother Award Round-Up.

Complete documentation of all the nominees and 
winners at 

>> http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/


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OTHER RESSOURCES: SURVEILLANCE, PRIVACY
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++EU CYBER-RIGHTS++

Computer Crime treaty under fire:
The Wall Street Journal on provisons of the
Computer Crime Treaty by the EU commission for 
Cyberrights.

>>>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2645428,00.html

Open letter written by a number of international 
civil right organizations to the EU commission 
for cyber-rights: 

>>> http://www.gilc.org/privacy/coe-letter-1000.html


++SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PLAYERS++

Act Out and meet the Surveillance Camera Players 
coming to a video monitor near you. Read why 
"Javelina 1" said at the 9/29/99: Don't go out in 
public if you don't want ot be on Candid Camera. 

>>> http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html


++INTERVIEW WITH ECHELON RESEARCHER NICKY HAGER++

Read about Nicky Hagerīs view of Echelons history 
and present: "What matters most is whether or not 
there is an intelligence debate at all." 

>>> http://world-information.org/html/newsroom/index.htm

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++LINKS++

Privacy International 
>>> http://www.privacyinternational.org/

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) 
>>> http://www.epic.org

The Computers Freedom & Privacy Conference 
>>> http://www.cfp.org/

Center for Democracy and Technology 
>>> http://www.cdt.org/

Preserving Privacy in the Information Society 
by Marc Rotenberg
>>> http://www.unesco.org/webworld/infoethics_2/
eng/papers/paper_10.htm


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