[Chapter-delegates] Big Brother antiawards in Bulgaria

[Joly MacFie]

20 years, Veni!

Kudos for the continuing effort to shine the light on bad actors.

For those wishing to share, the url is
https://www.bta.bg/en/news/bulgaria/397804-vazrazhdane-wins-2023-big-brother-anti-award-for-breach-of-personal-data-protect\

I have shared it myself at
https://mastodon.nycmesh.net/@joly/109829762188198162

Joly

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:27 PM Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Hi.
> Thought this might be of interest for the chapters:
>
>
> Vazrazhdane Wins 2023 Big Brother Anti-Award for Breach of Personal Data
> Protection
>
> The winner of the 2023 Big Brother Anti-Award, organized by the Access to
> Information Programme (AIP) <https://www.aip-bg.org/en/> and Internet
> Society Bulgaria <http://www.isoc.bg>, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> "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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The anti-award was established in 1998 by the NGO Privacy International.
>
> The prize is a statuette of a military boot crushing a head. Another
> ceremony will be held this year in Germany in April.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
> Venihttps://www.veni.com
> pgp:5BA1366E veni at veni.com
>
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