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Big Brother Awards (BBA) are back in UK with more positive awards to celebrate the people that have been involved in protecting privacy in the past years.

The event, held in December 2008 at the London School of Economics, was organized by the EDRi-member Privacy International and gave only one Big Brother 2008 award - the statue of a boot stamping upon a human head - to the New Labour.

Other six positive prices, called Roll of Honour, were received by:

- Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP - one of the Liberal Democrat Members of the European Parliament, member of the Human Rights Committee;

- Phil Booth, the National Coordinator of the NO2ID Campaign against the Database State;

- Helen Wallace, Executive Director of GeneWatch UK, that has provided expert evidence on behalf of S. and Marper to the European Court of Human Rights;

- Gareth Crossman - retiring Director of Policy at Liberty Human Rights;

- Becky Hogge - retiring Executive Director of the Open Rights Group;

- Rt. Hon. David Davis MP, the former Conservative Shadow Home Affairs spokesman.

UK Big Brother Awards - boos for NuLabour, hurrahs for Sarah Ludford, Phil Booth, Helen Wallace, Gareth Crossman, Becky Hogge and David Davis (12.12.2008)
http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2008/12/uk-big-brother...

The Big Brother awards are back (12.12.2008)
http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/big_brother_awards_2008.html

EDRi-gram: ECHR decided against the UK DNA Database (17.12.2008)
http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number6.24/echr-marper-case-dna-uk