[chapter-delegates] Re: urgent: please correct draft article BBA Bulgaria

[Veni Markovski]

On 13 April 2005 EDRI-member Isoc Bulgaria organised its second Big Brother 
Award Ceremony. This years winner in the category of most heinous political 
institution was the Council of Ministers, for changing the Data Protection 
Act. Data protection was used as an excuse to block access to personal data 
of public figures, including politicians.

The individual Bulgarian who most excelled in violating privacy rights was 
the Chief Prosecutor, for starting an investigation against the journalists 
who created the BBC movie 'To Win The Games', about the alleged bribary for 
the 2012 Olympic Games city selection (several journalists pretended 
they've come to talk to the Bulgarian Member of the International Olympic 
Committee and offered him money if he'd vote for London). The "prize" also 
goes to the Appeal prosecution office of the city of Plovdiv for requesting 
the social security numbers of all cybercafe visitors in the city, and 
demanding detailed records about the time they accessed the Internet.

Finally the television producers of the program 'SIA Advertising' were put 
in the ice cold spotlight for using the personal data of 15.000 people (who 
applied to participate in the "Big Brother" show) for advertising, without 
prior warning or consent.

Press release ISOC Bulgaria (in Bulgarian, 14.05.2005)
http://bg.bigbrotherawards.org/ceremony2005.html