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Scope and purpose of the awards
The Junkbusters Awards for Privacy in Commerce recognize people, institutions, technologies, contributions to public discourse, and especially companies that are outstanding (for better and for worse) in the world of privacy and business.
The awards have some similarities with the unrelated Orwell Big Brother Awards, but with the major difference that government intrusions such as excessive surveillance by law enforcement are disqualified.
The call for nominations has closed. However nominations for the next similar event may be submitted via an online form at http://www.junkbusters.com/awards.html#form (here).
Awards ceremony
The award winners were announced at a ceremony at
5:45pm on Monday November 8 at the
Holeman Lounge
of the
National Press Club,
Washington, DC.
Here are the winners, each followed by an indication
of whether the award was
positive or negative.
Two photographs are available with Catlett left in the blue shirt, Markey center in the white shirt, and Hendricks right in the striped shirt. [Photo1] [Photo1]
Panel of Judges
The following people served on the panel of judges.
The nominees were evaluated, and many were discarded (even many who had made a significant contribution) to form a list of finalists who were the strongest contenders. Certain parties were disqualified from consideration: judges and sponsors, and institutions affiliated with them.
Each finalist begins with either +ve in the case of a positive nomination for improving privacy or -ve in the case of a negative nomination for harming privacy.
The top-level breakdown is by corporate entities, and officials (elected and appointed). Two categories are open to all kinds of individuals and entities: Technology and Technologists and Public Discourse.
Only a small number of ``distinguished winners'' will receive prizes. In most categories no finalist is distinguished.
Public officials
+ve: Sheila Anthony,
for recognizing and asserting
the need to develop privacy rights for online consumers
+ve: Jointly: Sens. Richard Bryan (D., Nev.), and Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D., Mass.),
for their bipartisan attempts to include privacy protections
in the
Financial Services Bill.
+ve: Sen. Richard Bryan (D., Nev.),
for the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998,
for protecting privacy in banking,
and for legislation for Internet privacy proposed this year.
+ve: Jointly, Peter J. Barnes, Jr., and Barbara Buono (NJ Assembly),
for advancing state Internet privacy law based on Federal proposals
+ve: Sen. Conrad Burns, (R., Mont.),
for the
Online Privacy Protection Act .
+ve: Jointly: Gov. Argeo Paul Cellucci and Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift (Massachusetts),
for proposed extensive
privacy protections
for the state
[News release]
+ve: Mike Hatch,
for his
suit against
U.S. Bank's
sale of detailed financial information to telemarketers
+ve: Rep. Jay Inslee, (D., Wash.),
for strong support for financial
privacy and outstanding public statements.
+ve: William Kennard,
for defense of the FCC's rules requiring opt-in for
use of phone call records for marketing
+ve: Rep. Gary Miller (R., Ca.),
for
his
groundbreaking
spam-control
law in California
and for similar proposed legislation since his election to
the Federal House
+ve: Rep. Edward Markey,
for his extensive record of leading the House in privacy, including
Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991,
his
letter to Intel
objecting to the Pentium III Processor Serial Number ,
his advocacy for Internet privacy rights.
+ve: Sen. Richard Shelby,
for
legislative protections for drivers' privacy,
and his fighting for privacy protections in the
Financial Services Bill.
+ve: Jointly, the many state legislatures who have enacted privacy protections,
for picking up where Congress left off
+ve: Sen. Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo),
for the first
state legislation
prohibiting the selling or sharing shoppers' personal information.
Negative finalists:
-ve: David Aaron,
for his tireless efforts to oppose the adoption of privacy laws
both in the United States and around the world
-ve: Jointly, Rep. Jim Leach (R., Iowa) and many other members of congress,
for profound disregard of privacy in
Financial Services Act.
-ve: Orson Swindle,
for voting against the
FTC's
action against ``pretexters''
who obtain personal information by deception,
and for a
"9.9 out of 10"
score for opposition to privacy protections
For-profit corporations
Nominations of for-profit corporations,
which form the bulk of the nominees, are placed into
one of eight categories according to the most relevant
principle of Fair Information Practice
(a link on the category name leads to a detailed explanation of
the Principle from the OECD guidelines).
Positive:
+ve: IBM,
for being the first PC manufacturer to announce it would
disable
the PSN in BIOS
+ve: Nob Hill Foods,
for
ending
its store card program,
thereby giving anonymous purchasers the same prices
Positive:
+ve: E-Loan,
for establishing regular
independent audits
of the conformance of its information practices with its
comprehensive privacy policy
[CBS MarketWatch]
Technologies and technologists
-ve: Thomas W. Heeter,
for a
patent
on tattooing barcodes onto live human beings
Positive:
+ve: Georgi Guninski,
for finding
numerous security flaws
in
Microsoft's Internet Explorer
(a Web browser)
+ve: Jointly, Dave Kristol and Lou Montulli,
for
RFC 2109,
which if implemented would reduce third-party surveillance
via Web cookies
+ve: Lucent Technologies,
for LPWA,
which until recently provided free, ad-free demonstration of Web anonymization
and privacy technologies
+ve: Mr,
Richard M. Smith
for
his
numerous
investigations
into intrusive technologies including the
Microsoft GUID
Public discourse
For-profit corporations
-ve: US West,
for their
appeal
leading to a court's decision
to allow use of phone call details for marketing purposes without
consumer's consent,
and then calling it "definitely consumer friendly"
+ve: Forrester Research,
for its
analysis
of how the lack of privacy protection is holding back
ecommerce
Non-profit organizations
-ve: Direct Marketing Association,
for sustained lobbying against privacy laws,
and for its
e-MPS
system to promote spam
-ve: Global Business Dialog,
for a
single press release
calling for for a strong protection of intellectual property rights for
companies and no privacy laws for consumers.
+ve: Canadian Marketing Association,
for its decision to prohibit its members spamming
and its support for the
comprehensive privacy law
making its way through Canada's parliament
+ve: Center for Media Education,
for their report
Web of Deception
and work towards the progress of the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Individuals
-ve: Scott McNealy,
for his
notorious remark
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
[McNealy Op-Ed]
[RM Smith reply]
+ve: Robert Biggerstaff,
for
his tireless efforts
as privacy activist, both
in
court
and in
public
and his fights against
invasive
and
illegal
telemarketing.
+ve: Robert Ellis Smith,
for
Privacy Journal
and several seminal books on privacy
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