Lifetime Menace - Prix Spécial du Jury: Google Inc. wins for its overwhelming capacity to retain personal data of internet users, for having been rated the
"worst company" among worldwide Internet groups surveyed last year by
Privacy International, for not compling to the EU Data Protection directives, and for filtering search results for political reasons.
Google founders
Larry Page and
Steve Brin, as well as Global Privacy Officer Peter Fleischer, were named for their personnal contribution.
French Ministry of Education came second, for its database
"base élèves" aimed at registering primary schools pupils (from 3 to 10 years old), and the
Ministry of Culture and Communication
came 3rd for its repeated laws and decrees aiming to filter the
internet, organise global monitoring of internet users without court
warrants, and being complacent to the music and film industry lobbies
in their fight against online piracy.
It's also interesting to note that newly elected French President
Nicolas Sarkozy
has been banned out from the competition this year, because of his
"genetic predisposition" to violations of privacy and civil liberties.