The Multatuli Project The Multatuli Project, subtitled
ISP Notice and take down, was the title of an experiment done by members of the Bits of Freedom group in the summer of 2004. The group uploaded excerpts from
Multatuli to websites hosted at 10 different Dutch
ISPs, content which has been in the
public domain since 1957. They then sent a complaint about the content from a
Hotmail account posing as a legal advisor to the 10 ISPs; seven of them complied and removed the site, one within just three hours, without investigating the legality of the matter, or asking questions about the dubious background of the requester.
Big Brother Awards To raise awareness of privacy-related issues, Bits of Freedom holds annual
Big Brother Awards. This prize is awarded to businesses, governmental institutions and persons who have harmed privacy or increased civilian surveillance in the past year. The award is named after the character "
Big Brother" from
George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty-Four. The winners of the Big Brother Awards 2011 were the National Police Services Agency (now the
national police corps) (in the category "governmental institutions") for the use of spyware and hacking of hacking victims, minister
Edith Schippers (in the category "people") for forcing a restart of the Dutch
Electronic health record, in spite of it not being supported by the Netherlands
Senate,
Facebook (in the category "business") for going to the stock market without safeguards for user privacy and finally minister
Fred Teeven (in the category "popular vote") for further harming privacy legislation. ==See also==