International Privacy Survey.
Privacy International and EPIC released
their 4th annual world survey "Privacy
and Human Rights 2001" on technologies and privacy laws in 55
countries around the world in September 2001. An electronic version will
be released shortly.
Project
Compliance.
Privacy International is monitoring companies' compliance with the EU
Data Protection and the US/EU Safe Harbor agreement.
Big Brother Awards.
Privacy International held
the first Big Brother Awards in London in October 98 and has held nineteen
ceremonies in nine countries. Awards are given to the companies, government
agencies and individuals that have most directly undercut privacy. The
next US awards ceremony is scheduled for 18 April 2002 in San Franscisco,
CA.
Privacy International Hosts BBC Documentary.
PI Director Simon Davies hosted a prime-time television documentary on
BBC2 on Monday February 7, 2001. "The
Death of Privacy" explored a range of surveillance techniques,
including Automatic Face Recognition, communications interception and
database matching. The program also describes attempts to establish an
UK national DNA database supplied with samples from traffic offenders
and illegal protesters. Davies also spends time offering some subversive
techniques to undermine privacy invasion. A BBC2
Online Discussion on the show is available.