The Big Brother Award recognizes " the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy". It is awarded by Privacy International[?]. It is named for the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The following countries have their own version of the Big Brother Award:
... some guarantees can be overridden through a legislative enactment limited to five years, though such an override can be reauthorized.
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