03.07.2008 Big Brother Awards - France 2007

On 21 March 2008, Paris was the host of the French Big Brother awards ceremony for the year 2007. For the second time President Nicolas Sarkozy was excluded from the competition on grounds of "genetic predisposition" for attacks to personal life and freedoms. The jury has reached the conclusion that Mr. Sarkozy's problem must be of genetic source and therefore he should be considered legally "irresponsible" of his repeated acts against private life and fundamental freedoms. The Constitutional Council received the State award for having validated a new Sarkozy law on "safety imprisonment" which allows for imprisonment of people considered dangerous by experts and not judges. A special mention was received by Professor Philip Gorwood of Inserm for a study collecting DNA of young students in search of genetics and behavioural links and for having used doubtful techniques to obtain from the students confidential information on their parents. The award for companies was won by Taser France and Elsa for the drone prototypes Quadri France, surveillance pieces of equipment, initially developed for the army, used now for the surveillance of the population especially in the rural area. Claude Journès, as president of the Lyon II University and teacher of political sciences was awarded the locality price for treating students as surveillance technologies' guinea pigs. The Novlang award was given to the TV show Envoyé Spécial of France 2 for having accepted to make a biased reportage showing how the immigration police works with the presentation of an Internet messenger type system encouraging the population to denouncement. Google has received the award for the lifetime menace for placing its users from the whole world under surveillance. The Voltaire positive award was received by the team Refus ADN made of a group of people who refuse to be taken a DNA sample on simple "suspect" grounds. Archive: 2008-07 2008-04 2008-03 2008-02 2008-01 2007-11 2007-10 2007-09 2007-08 2007-07 2007-06 2007-05 2007-04 2007-03 2007-02 2007-01 2006-12 2006-11 2006-10 2006-09 2006-08