Big Brother Is Watching
July, 1999
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Know Your Customer plan, which required banks to report even routine customer transactions to authorities, didn't score big with the public. But it did garner the Big Brother Award for the Most Invasive Proposal.This past April, the human rights group Privacy International presented its first Big Brother Awards (pictured at left) to individuals and institutions that have done the most to invade personal privacy in the United States. The judging panel include...
