Plasterk can win Big Brother Award

The government will again win a Big Brother Award, an award for people and organizations that violate the privacy of citizens, according to organizers.

Plasterk " is working on a afluisterwet , but refuses to listen to criticism of it ", said civil rights organization Bits of Freedom Wednesday . His competitors insurer Achmea , which offers customers a discount if they share their personal data , and Microsoft , which stores user behavior with the new operating system Windows 10 . The Big Brother Award will be presented on October 28 at the City Theatre in Amsterdam.

There is also a prize of experts for the biggest privacy violator and a prize for someone who has just committed to privacy. Which Winston Award went last year to whistleblower Edward Snowden. Guest of honor at the ceremony was the Austrian Max Schrems . He recently won a historic lawsuit against Facebook . Thus Europeans of personal data should not be put just on servers in the United States.