Big Brother Awards – Table of Previous Winners
For further details on all Winners, click on the relevant year
| Year | Most Invasive Technology | Worst Corporate Invader | Worst Agency or Official | Boot-in-Mouth | Lifetime Menace | People’s Choice | Lifetime Achievement | Best Privacy Guardian |
| 2011 | Body Scanners (2nd: Google StreetView and Wifi) |
Qld Driver’s Licence & Vic Tpt Ticketing (MyKi) |
Facebook (2nd: Biometrics Institute, & Chasers Nightclub ID and Biometric Scanning) |
Eric Schmidt (of Google) | Nigel Waters | |||
| 2009 | ANPR by Police and Crimtrac (2nd: Google Maps) |
Biometrics Institute (2nd: Telstra) |
National eHealth Transition Authority (NEHTA) | NSW Govt for Automated Electoral Enrolment | Carolyn Bond (VIC) & Kat Lane (NSW), Consumer Credit Advocates | |||
| 2006 | Health-e-Link by NSW Health Dept | The Banks, for dealings with SWIFT (2nd: Direct Health Solutions employee interrogation & the PMP Junk Mail company’s GPS tracking of walkers) (Also GreyPages.net and BoongHunter.com reverse-phone directories) |
Chris Ellison, Justice Minister, for the AML&CTF law (2nd: Medical Researchers at LaTrobe University, for a sexual health research study) (Also SA Health re children’s mental health records) |
Joe Hockey, Minister for Human Services, for the ‘’Access Card’ (2nd: NSW Health Dept for Health-e-Link) |
Lex Lasry QC and other lawyers for refusing personal security clearances by ASIO (2nd: ACMA for Spam Act prosecution) (Also Brent Carey, Senior Privacy Adviser, Vic Dept of Justice) |
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| 2005 | Health Communications Network for allowing extraction of medical information from GPs’ computers (2nd: HP, Microsoft for ID scheme technologies) |
Telstra for their Employee Monitoring and Surveillance procedure (2nd: CAMM Pacific for extracting medical information from GPs’ computers) (Also Dun & Bradstreet for its relentless campaign for ‘positive’ reporting, i.e. access to all credit data about everyone) |
Senator Julian McGauran for an abortion disclosure (2nd: Vic Police for LEAP database disclosures) |
Senator Amanda Vanstone for proposing a national ID card (2nd: Peter Beattie, Qld Premier, for firing the starter’s gun in the race) |
NSW Govt, for failing to appoint a Privacy Commissioner for 2-1/2 years | ABS for converting the Census into an identified database | Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja | Jon Stanhope, ACT Chief Minister for publishing the ‘confidential’ draft Anti-Terrorism Bill (2nd: Steve Ciobo, Qld Liberal backbencher, for speaking against the ID card) |
| 2004 | Biometric Passports | Major political parties, for abuses around elections | Bob Debus, NSW Attorney-General | Qld Smartcard Drivers Licence | Carl Scully, NSW Minister for Roads | John Pane, Australia Post’s Chief Privacy Officer | ||
| 2003 | TICA Default Tenancy Control | Internet Industry Association | Senator Chris Ellison, Minister for Justice | Darryl Williams, Clth Attorney General |