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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Vazrazhdane Wins 2023
Big Brother Anti-Award for Breach of Personal Data Protection</h1>
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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The winner of the 2023
Big Brother Anti-Award, organized by the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.aip-bg.org/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"
style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(13, 110, 253); text-decoration: none;">Access to Information
Programme (AIP)</a><span> </span>and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="www.isoc.bg">Internet Society Bulgaria</a>, is the
political formation Vazrazhdane - for their violating the
protection of personal data and privacy. This was announced by
Alexander Kashumov, Head of the AIP legal team, during the award
ceremony on Saturday in Sofia.</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This dishonour went to
Vazrazhdane, after the party published the PINs of more than 800
Bulgarian citizens in its attempt to stigmatize them and declare
them spies, Kashumov said.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px;
color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Sofia, -apple-system,
"system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen,
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Vazrazhdane's
nomination differs from the rest in that there was a deliberate
dissemination of personal data," media expert Georgi Lozanov said.
Vazrazhdane was trying to trigger its electorate to launch an
abusive campaign against supposed enemies of the party, according
to Lozanov. This is reminiscent of the idea of radical evil in
totalitarian societies - to declare a part of society as
superfluous or harmful.</p>
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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Another nominee was the
National Revenue Agency (NRA) for the inadequate way of having
users turn off certain cookies, which allows companies such as
Google to learn what those users were doing on the NRA website.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px;
color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Sofia, -apple-system,
"system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen,
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The Ministry of
Education and Science was also nominated for the anti-award
because of the way it processed students' personal data, including
data of underage children, while conducting school Olympiads,
Kashumov said. The submitter of that nomination also filed a
complaint, which resulted in the Ministry instructing schools on
how to comply with the European regulation and the Personal Data
Protection Act.</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">DSK Bank was another Big
Brother nominee. "The bank's 2019 case continues to languish in
certain obscurity," said Veneta Shopova of the Commission for
Personal Data Protection. At the time, it was discovered that data
from the credit files of more than 33,000 people had been
exported, with credit, financial and property information, as well
as medical information, including information about guarantors.
The Commission identified the unauthorized access and issued a
penalty notice for BGN 1 million, which is appealed in court.</p>
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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The AIP and ISOC
Bulgaria first organized the Big Brother Anti-Awards in 2003.
Saturday's ceremony was dedicated to the European Data Protection
Day - January 28.</p>
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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The anti-award was
established in 1998 by the NGO Privacy International.</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The prize is a statuette
of a military boot crushing a head. Another ceremony will be held
this year in Germany in April.</p>
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