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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I presume that the use of a Facebook page to collect nominations is a hint as to possible nominees?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>See:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2023/01/04/meta-fined-390-after-advertising-practices-ruled-illegal-under-eu-law_6010309_143.html">https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2023/01/04/meta-fined-390-after-advertising-practices-ruled-illegal-under-eu-law_6010309_143.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/irish-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-more-than-400-mln-2023-01-04/">https://www.reuters.com/technology/irish-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-more-than-400-mln-2023-01-04/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Happy New Year and best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 11 January 2023 13:29<br><b>To:</b> Chapter Delegates<br><b>Subject:</b> [Chapter-delegates] BigBrotherAwards - Bulgarian edition<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Hi, everyone.<br><br>ISOC - Bulgaria and Access to Information Program are announcing call for nominations for the Big Brother (anti)awards. Here's the English (shorter than Bulgarian - sorry!) announcement from the official web site <a href="https://bigbrotherawards.bg/">https://bigbrotherawards.bg/</a> <br><br></span><br><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.isoc.bg/"><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;letter-spacing:.75pt;background:white'>Internet Society Bulgaria</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#363A3F;letter-spacing:.75pt;background:white'> and </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.aip-bg.org/"><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;letter-spacing:.75pt;background:white'>Access to Information Program</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#363A3F;letter-spacing:.75pt;background:white'> in Bulgaria call for nominations about governmental bodies, companies and persons which have violated or violate the privacy of citizens and citizens' data.</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";letter-spacing:.75pt'><br><span style='color:#363A3F'><br><span style='background:white'>Suggestions can be submitted via the ISOC-Bulgaria Facebook page </span></span></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/internetsocietybg" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;letter-spacing:.75pt;background:white'>here</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#363A3F;letter-spacing:.75pt;background:white'> or via the emails of the two organizations, listed below. Government agencies and private companies are increasingly violating the privacy of people everywhere. Enormous amounts of personal data are being collected, stored and processed - often illegally - in the pursuit of more efficient marketing, greater social control, and more powerful mechanisms for monitoring of the citizen.</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#363A3F;letter-spacing:.75pt'><br></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br>Wanted to let you know about this (great) initiative, which we have been part of since 2002. <br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Best regards, <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Veni<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://www.veni.com">https://www.veni.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>pgp:5BA1366E <a href="mailto:veni@veni.com">veni@veni.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>The opinions expressed above are those of the <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>author, not of any organizations, associated <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>with or related to him in any given way. <o:p></o:p></pre></div></div></body></html>