[Chapter-delegates] Big Brother antiawards in Bulgaria

[Johan Helsingius]

Bits of Freedom (bof.nl) are doing the same in the Netherlands, but the
winner won't be announced until 13 February.

	Julf


On 08/02/2023 16:15, Joly MacFie via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> 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\ <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 
> <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 
> <mailto: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
>     theAccess 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
>     -- 
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Veni
>     https://www.veni.com  <https://www.veni.com>
>     pgp:5BA1366Eveni at veni.com  <mailto:veni at veni.com>
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