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On 28 January 2008, the Access to Information Programme and EDRi-member Internet Society Bulgaria presented the Big Brother negative awards.
The Big Brother award was presented to the Ministry of Interior for publishing data from the passports and criminal conviction records of two BBC journalists who were shooting a documentary in Bulgaria.
The Sramota (or Shame diploma) was presented to the Bulgarian Council of Ministers for their decision to publish in the State Gazette of October 2007 the names, permanent addresses and the personal numbers of the owners of land, which were expropriated for the construction of the south road circle in Sofia.
Among the nominees for the anti-award this year were also the Traffic Police, the Registry Agency at the Ministry of Justice, as well as the Commission for Data Protection itself.
On 28 January, when the Big Brother Awards Ceremony was held in Bulgaria, coincides with the European Data Protection Day. The date marks the adoption of Convention 108 of the Council of Europe for the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data.
The Big Brother Awards ceremony was held in Bulgaria for the fourth time. The last ceremony was held in 2005.
Big Brother Awards Bulgaria (only in Bulgarian, 28.01.2008)
http://bg.bigbrotherawards.org/
The "Big Brother" Awards Ceremony Held in Bulgaria (28.01.2008)
http://www.aip-bg.org/documents/bb_eng_2008.htm
Bulgarian Big Brother Awards - 2007 (28.01.2008)
http://blog.veni.com/?p=439
(contribution by Veni Markovski - EDRi-member ISOC Bulgaria)