Big Brother Awards (United Kingdom) Explained

The Big Brother Awards (the Winston Awards) for the United Kingdom

2008

A single Big Brother award was won by New Labour.^[1]

The 2003 awards went to:^[2]

Ken Livingstone—Worst Civil Servant
Capita—Most invasive company
PIU Data Sharing Report—Most appalling project
Association of Chief Police Officers(ACPO)—Most heinous government organisation.
Tony Blair—Lifetime menace
David Blunkett—"Dog Poo On A Stick" prize

Posthumously, to Dr Roger Needham
Teri Dowty, Joint national coordinator, Childrens Rights Alliance for England and Wales
Marion Chester, Legal Director, Association of Community Health Councils of England and Wales
Stand insurance blog^[3] ^[4]
Richard Norton-Taylor and Stuart Millar of The Guardian
Undercurrents

The 2002 awards went to:^[5]

The 2000 awards were made on 4 December and went to:^[6]

The 1998 awards went to:^[7]

Corporation: Procurement Services International for selling surveillance equipment to Nigeria, Turkey and Indonesia, three countries whose human rights records have been severely criticised.
Local government: Newham Council in London won for using its 140 street cameras and facial recognition software to try to pick out criminals in crowds.
National government: Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) over its plans for the police to have access through a third party to the keys to any information sent electronically that was locked by encryption.
Product: Software by Harlequin that examines telephone records and is able to compare numbers dialled in order to group users into 'friendship networks' won this category. It avoids the legal requirements needed for phone tapping.
Lifetime achievement award: Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, a listening station used by America's National Security Agency and described as the biggest US spy station in the world, won this special award.

SchNEWS a Brighton-based weekly newsletter
Lindis Percy, a Quaker, who attempts to raise awareness of the activities of the United States National Security Agency, particularly relating to Menwith Hill, (joint coordinator of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases)
Alan Lodge a Nottingham photographer who spent a decade raising awareness of Police surveillance activities, particularly the practice of photographing demonstrators, activists and minority groups.