Big Brother Awards

They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The first annual US Big Brother Awards were made at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference in Washington, D.C., on 7 April 1999, the 50th anniversary of the publication of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[4] The awards were made by Simon Davies, managing director[5] of the London-based Privacy International to recognize "the government and private sector organizations which have done the most to invade personal privacy in the United States.

"[4] The awards were given in five categories: Greatest Corporate Invader, Lifetime Menace, Most Invasive Program, People's Choice, and Worst Public Official.

[5] The following countries have their own version of the Big Brother Awards: This award-related article is a stub.