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Big Brother Awards highlight privacy violations

Maier, FrankMarch 12, 2012

A Dutch privacy group gives awards to the worst privacy violations of the year.

https://p.dw.com/p/14JKY

If you've been listening to Spectrum for awhile or following our coverage online, you'll know that hardly a week has gone by without news about privacy violations or data breaches. Whether it’s big companies like Google, Facebook or Apple, or governmental institutions, all across Europe privacy seems in danger. In the Netherlands, privacy advocates try to highlight the importance of privacy in a playful way. Last week, the worst of the worst received prizes in the Big Brother Awards in Amsterdam. Peter Teffer reports.