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The official start of the call for nominations for the Italian Big Brother Award (BBA) 2007 began on 2 April 2007 and will last until 30 April.
In a scenario where privacy is all the time attacked by new technologies and doubtful initiatives to protect our "security", the BBA is meant to highlight the worst offenders of privacy, who often can take advantage of the very minor attention by official media.
In the best tradition of the Internet, the BBA is also meant as a way to have fun. Privacy is a serious thing, but having a laugh helps protecting it better.
For this reason, during the award ceremony - which will take place in Florence (Italy) at the end of May during the E-Privacy 2007 conference, where there will be some surprises.
The BBA procedures are simple: everybody - before 30 April - can send one or more nominations for one or more of the categories of the award. A suitable form is available online. People can also vote via e-mail and voting via anonymous re-mailers is of course possible.
From 1 to 4 May a jury will vote the winners of each category and the three most voted nominations for each category will be made public on 7 May, while the winners will be announced during the award ceremony.
In order to avoid undue pressures, nominations can be made in partial or total anonymity, and the names of the jurors will be made public only after the end of voting. The BBA 2007 is made possible thanks to the work of the Winston Smith Project, in collaboration with Privacy International and other organizations.
Last, not least, the BBA is also meant to highlight those who strive to defend privacy: it is possible to give a "positive" vote to any person or organization that has worked in this direction.
Any information on BBA Italy 2007 should be directed at info@winstonsmith.info
BBA 2007 Italy (only in Italian)
http://bba.winstonsmith.info/
E-Privacy 2007 conference (only in Italian)
http://e-privacy.winstonsmith.info/
Form for nominations (only in Italian)
http://bba.winstonsmith.info/nomina.html
EDRI-gram: Big Brother Awards Italy 2006 (24.05.2006)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.10/bbaitaly
(Contribution by Andrea Glorioso - consultant on digital policies)