[TriLUG] Big Brother Award goes to...

[Beth Ellison]

http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=580656

Microsoft nominated Big Brother award in Austria.

BERLIN (10/24/2001) - Microsoft Corp. is demanding that organizers of a
mock awards ceremony withdraw their nomination of the company for
practices deemed a threat to personal privacy.

Microsoft is at the top of a list of companies, politicians, and
institutions being considered for the Austrian "Big Brother Awards," a
tongue-in-cheek ceremony intended to raise awareness of the issue of
personal privacy in the Information Age.

The award sponsors nominated the software giant "for an attempt, such
as has never been seen before in such dimensions, to obtain complete
control over its customers," citing the "mandatory registration" for the
new Windows XP operating system, and the Passport online identification
system, which "gives an almost unlimited potential for surveillance."




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