[Chapter-delegates] Big Brother antiawards in Bulgaria

[Veni Markovski]

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 <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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