<nettime> Paris, 16 décembre ZeligConf - French Big Brother Awards 2000 !

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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/

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