============================================================ EDRI-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 4.22, 22 November 2006 ============================================================ Contents ============================================================ 1. Draft Audiovisual Directive limited to the TV-like services on the web 2. German draft law on data retention presented 3. New law proposal on data retention submitted in Italy 4. UK biometric passports project set back by simple cloning possibilities 5. Microsoft in danger of additional fining from the European Commission 6. Italian Minister of Justice proposes an authority for violent videogames 7. Logging of IP addresses banned in Germany 8. Swiss Big Brother Awards 2006 9. Italian postal codes can be freely accessed 10. FIPR report on children's databases - likely to harm rather than help 11. Support EDRi-gram 12. Agenda 13. About ============================================================ 1. Draft Audiovisual Directive limited to the TV-like services on the web ============================================================ At the EU's Council of Ministers meeting on 14 November a new version of the Audiovisual Media Services directive has been agreed, that limits the new regulation regarding video on the Internet only to the TV-like services (linear services). The video clips on the Internet will not be subject of this new directive. The initial version of the Audiovisual Media Services, which is a revision of the 1997 Television without Frontiers (TWF) directive, has been seriously criticized by various players - from the UK government to a number of media scholars that signed the Budapest Declaration for Freedom of the Internet. The new version agreed by the Council of Ministers, but also by the European Parliament Culture committee introduces the notion of audiovisual media services and distinguishes between television broadcasts ("linear" services" e.g. scheduled broadcasting via traditional TV, the internet or mobile phones, which "pushes" content to viewers) and on-demand services ("non-linear" such as video on-demand, which the viewer "pulls" from a network). In distinguishing between these two categories of audiovisual media services, both the Commission and the Committee have stressed that they are seeking to subject providers of "on demand services" to only a minimum set of rules. Linear services, on the other hand, are more thoroughly regulated. One of the main supporters of the reduction of the content were the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom and Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell. Ofcom will now have to regulate only the TV Internet broadcast from major televisions, but will not include the social networking websites - so popular these days. "Today's outcome is testament to the substantial progress we have made in persuading our European partners to take our arguments on board," underlined one of the supporters of the change, the UK creative industries minister, Shaun Woodward. Continuing the country of origin principle foreseen in the TWF directive, the draft Audiovisual directive puts the national regulators in charge of regulating the broadcasters that operate within their borders. The agreed text includes also a mechanism allowing a destination Member State under certain limited circumstances to take measures against a provider established in another Member State. Television in the digital age: MEPs adopt a new approach to product placement (14.11.2006) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/039-12616-317-11-46... 906-20061113IPR12607-13-11-2006-2006-false/default_en.htm Britain kills EU attempt to regulate net video clips (14.11.2006) http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1947176,00.html Regulation of web video watered down in Europe (16.11.2006) http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=7488 EDRI-gram: Draft Audiovisual Media Services Directive under criticism (24.05.2006) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.10/audiovisualEDRI-gram EU Audiovisual Directive:Budapest Declaration for Freedom of the Internet (30.08.2006) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.16/budapestdeclaration ============================================================ 2. German draft law on data retention made public ============================================================ On 8 November 2006, the German Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries presented a draft law aimed at transposing the EU directive on data retention. The law would override the recent jurisprudence on IP logging by mandating the retention of traffic data for a period of six months. Retention requirements are also to apply to anonymization services, making them practically superfluous. Furthermore anonymous e-mail accounts are to be banned. Access to traffic data shall be permissible for the investigation of "substantial" offences, but also for the investigation of any offence committed by use of telecommunications networks (including sharing of copyrighted content). The law is to enter into force on 15 September 2007. Until 15 March 2009 data retention is to be optional for providers of internet access, Internet telephony and e-mail services. The draft law was sharply criticised by the activist Working Group on Data Retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung) for being unconstitutional. The German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) has repeatedly ruled in the past that human rights permit the collection of personal data only where they are needed for a specific purpose. The Working Group called for the transposition process to be aborted or, at least, suspended until the ECJ has ruled on Ireland's action for annulment of the directive on data retention. The Working Group also criticized the German draft law for going beyond EU requirements in relation to anonymization services, e-mail services and access to retained data. The EU directive applies to the investigation of "serious" offences only and does not ban anonymous or anonymization services. The activist group presented a class action to be submitted to the Federal Constitutional Court in case the proposed law is adopted. The Court is to be asked to provisionally suspend data retention in Germany while examining its constitutionality. According to the draft application published on the Internet, the EU directive on data retention is void for violating human rights and for lacking a legal basis. The planned class action is supported by several German jurists and is open for all German citizens to join. Draft law on data retention in Germany (in German only, 8.11.2006) http://www.humanistische-union.de/fileadmin/hu_upload/doku/vorratsdaten/de-r... cht/bmj_2006.11.pdf Website of the Working Group on Data Retention including information on the class action against data retention (in German only) http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/ (Contribution by Patrick Breyer - Working Group on Data Retention - Germany) ============================================================ 3. New law proposal on data retention submitted in Italy ============================================================ Thanks to Italian MP Maurizio Turco (Rosa nel Pugno) a law proposal on data retention authored by the Winston Smith Project has been recently submitted to the Italian Parliament as DDL (Disegno di Legge) number 1728. The proposal, whose title is "Regulations for the collection, usage, retention and deletion of geo-referenced or chrono-referenced data, containing unique user identifiers, through automatic devices" aims to limit the "side effects" of the current "data retention culture", in which - due to political and technological reasons - logging and retention of all sorts of data is the norm rather than the exception. According to the explanatory text of the proposal, ISP connections, web surfing patterns, mail, news, chats can be logged and stored indefinitely with relatively small investments, even by small and medium organisations. The phenomenon is not limited to the Internet "per se": GSM "cell data", i.e. the list of cells to which a mobile phone connects while the owner moves, or data resulting from RFID usage are two other examples. Technological automation allows the creation of huge databases on activities that are not necessarily considered "personal data" according to Italian law 196/2003, the main legal source for privacy protection in Italy, and are therefore not subject to the protection guaranteed thereof. Such databases can quickly become a privacy nightmare as access controls tend to be lax either for lack of funding or for a commercial interest into giving such access in the first place, and as data mining theory and applications become more and more sophisticated in cross-referencing apparently innocuous data from different sources. Three Italian laws regulate the duration of data retention: Legislative Decree 259/2003 ("Codice delle comunicazioni elettroniche"), Law 196/2003 ("Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali) and, most recently, the so-called "decreto Pisanu", from the name of the former Ministry of Internal Affairs of the last Berlusconi government. The law proposal by the Winston Smith Project does not want to negotiate the current obligations related to data retention; rather, it aims at acting "ex ante" by reducing the quantity of data that are automatically collected without any specific legal obligation imposing such collection in the first place. The law introduces the "duty to delete" principle, according to which automatically collected data shall not be preserved for longer than strictly necessary to achieve the goal for which collection took place in the first place. In a nutshell, the law proposal aims at making deletion of data the rule, rather than the exception. The Winston Smith Project http://www.winstonsmith.info/ An interoperable world: the European Commission vs Microsoft Corporation and the value of open interfaces (04.2005) http://www.bileta.ac.uk/Document%20Library/1/An%20Interoperable%20World%20-%... 0the%20European%20Commission%20vs%20Microsoft%20Corporation%20and%20the%20Val ue%20of%20Open%20Interfaces.pdf Text of the law proposal (only in Italian) https://www.winstonsmith.info/proposta_di_legge_rdp_v6.rtf (Contribution by Andrea Glorioso, Italian consultant on digital policies) ============================================================ 4. UK biometric passports project set back by simple cloning possibilities ============================================================ UK Government faces now a big problem related to the introduction of the new biometric passports as recently it has been proven these passports can be easily and very cheaply copied by means of a microchip reader that can be legally bought on the Internet. As a big embarrassment to the Home Office, a project having led to the increase of the travel documents by 60 per cent since March 2006, and that brought about 90 million euro costs for the passport production lines, may be entirely dropped as the new passports are more a risk for their owners rather than an improvement to the old documents. "Three million people now have passports that expose them to a greater risk of identity fraud than before." said Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman. UK government decided to introduce the micro-chipped biometric passports in order to make theft more difficult, but an investigation led by the Guardian has shown the respective passports can be easily read and copied. The data obtained from three passports were transferred to a PC after gaining access to the chips by means of a simple microchip reader, purchased from the Internet for less than 150 euro, and then cloned with photograph included. Computer expert Adam Laurie, who needed only 48 hours to write a software capable to copy the information from the passports said: "The Home Office is using strong cryptography to prevent conversations between the passport and the reader being eavesdropped, but they are breaking one of the fundamental principles of encryption by using non-secret information published in the passport to create a 'secret key'. That is the equivalent of installing a solid steel front door to your house and putting the key under the mat." The Home Office commented on that considering the fact as not important: "The information itself cannot be altered; the photo would still be the same so the copy would be of no use to an impersonator trying to use it fraudulently. Other than the photograph, which could be obtained easily by other means, they would gain no information that they did not already have - so the whole exercise would be utterly pointless." stated a spokesman. As Phil Booth of NO2ID said: "The government is clearly derelict in its duty to protect the privacy and security of British citizens". Recall demand after cloning of new biometric passports (17.11.2006) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1950199,00.html New biometric passports can be cloned using #100 equipment sold over internet (17.11.2006) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=... 17101&in_page_id=1770 Now, clone UK's new biometric passports with a 100 pound download from the Net! (18.11.2006) http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=52763 ============================================================ 5. Microsoft in danger of additional fining from the European Commission ============================================================ Microsoft faces additional fines for not having yet complied with the 2004 antitrust order through which it was ordered to provide the complete and accurate interface documentation ensuring other companies to write software that would work on systems running Windows . The Commission considered in 2004 that Microsoft had abused its position in the software market as its operation system Windows, used on more than 95% of the PCs in the world, did not allow sufficient interoperability for other software producers. Microsoft had already been fined with 479 million euro and another fine of 280.5 million euro was established by the EC for Microsoft not having observed the 19 July deadline. Now, the penalties will increase from 2 to 3 million euro per day in case the company does not meet the new deadline established for 23 November 2006. After that date, the information to be received from Microsoft will be supplied to its competitors to decide whether it is enough for interoperability. Although Microsoft has said that it is ready to provide the remaining information, the Commission seems to have lost its patience on the matter. Commissioner Neelie Kroes stated to the UK newspaper The Guardian: "I am not impressed if someone says 90% of the information is already there when we need 100%. It's a jigsaw and some parts are missing. In my opinion, this information should have been here a couple of months ago." Microsoft's new operating system Vista that had been initially scheduled for the middle on 2006 has been largely affected by this issue. Microsoft had to agree to make changes to Vista as EU threatened to ban it based on concerns that the software included in the operating system was violating antitrust laws. This delay in releasing Vista on the market is estimated to have cost Microsoft about 80 million euro per month and to have caused a drop of 20% in sales on the PC market. Microsoft is now planning to launch the product on 30 January 2007. In case the Commission and other software companies are pleased with the documents Microsoft is expected to provide, Microsoft will decide how much to charge for licenses and, in case the Commission finds the cost too high, it can again fine the US company. Professor Neil Barrett, the Commission's 'monitoring trustee' will help the Commission interpret the information provided by Microsoft and will monitor the compliance with the Commission's decisions. Microsoft has still not complied with 2004 ruling, says Commission (17.11.2006) http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=7490 EU threatens Microsoft with new fines (15.11.2006) http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194400583 EU sets Microsoft deadline, warns patience is thin (15.11.2006) http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=governmentFilingsNe... s&storyID=2006-11-15T161511Z_01_L15777929_RTRIDST_0_TECH-EU-MICROSOFT-UPDATE- 3.XML&WTmodLoc=InvArt-C2-NextArticle-1 Microsoft Vista operating system to be released on 30th January 2007 (12.11.2006) http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article120.html EDRI-gram : Microsoft Vista gets criticism before its launching in Europe (27.09.2006) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.18/vista ============================================================ 6. Italian Minister of Justice proposes an authority for violent videogames ============================================================ According to the Italian national newspaper La Repubblica, the Italian Minister of Justice, Mr. Clemente Mastella, has recently claimed that it would be advisable to create an "authority" that would "decide on acceptable standards related to the modalities of sale" of videogames, so that it might be possible to "find those [videogames] that contain unacceptable levels of violence". An "authority", in Italian political lingo, is a theoretically independent public body that ought to check and control certain subsets of public life. Examples include the "Autorit` per le Telecomunicazioni" (Authority for Telecommunications) and the "Autorit` Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato" (Authority for Guaranteeing Competition and [Free] Market), both criticized in the past for their inability to clearly fulfil their mission due to too much internal bureaucracy and/or a sort of "psychological dependence" towards the Government in charge and other powers-that-be. Mr. Mastella's remarks, together with those of Mr. Giuseppe Fioroni, Minister of Education, according to whom "freedom for videogames must stop in front of the freedom of sons to live in serenity and without violence", and those of Mr. Paolo Gentiloni, Minister of Communications, according to whom "the issues in protecting minors is not limited to television, but must extend to new media", seem to have been spurred by the videogame "Rule of Rose". It is not clear at this point how an "Authority for Violent Videogames" would be supposed to fare any better than the existing institutions; it is also not clear whether Mr. Mastella is suggesting the creation of a new rating system for the videogaming market in Italy - where the European rating system PEGI, or Pan European Gaming Information, is already in use - or rather he is proposing the introduction of new tools to control the circulation of videogames on the basis of existing rating systems. La Repubblica also quotes Mr. Mastella as adding that "both criminal [law] intervention and commercial and administrative actions can serve as methods of deterrence" and that "seizure is possible only when there is the possibility of a crime such as incitement to commit a crime". La Repubblica does not report Mr. Mastella explaining in detail how a videogame could incite to commit a crime, nor the way in which respect of the right to freedom of expression, as enshrined in art. 21 of the Italian Constitution would be achieved. In the same article Mr. Giovanni Maria Pirroni, director of the IIMS, the Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale (Italian Institute of Social Medicine), is reported as saying that "inhibiting sales of videogames is not a guarantee, since any kind of content can be downloaded through the Internet". It is not clear whether this constitutes recognition of the difficulties that an Authority as proposed by Mr. Mastella would face, or rather a call for similar regulations to be applied to online as well as to offline transactions and sales. This Italian desire for more regulation in the field seems to be finding listening ears in the European Commission: Franco Frattini, Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, has recently demanded that the European Union improve the protection of children against violent videogames. Mr. Frattini has been quoted as saying that during the meeting of justice ministers, scheduled for 5 December 2006, he would engage in "a first exchange of views on this issue with the objective of identifying a possible scope for complementary, national and European level activities [...] including issues such as awareness raising, the labelling of such games and the selling to minors." La Repubblica: Violent videogames in the government gun sight (only in Italian, 14.11.2006) http://www.repubblica.it/2006/11/sezioni/scuola_e_universita/servizi/videogi... chi-violenti/videogiochi-violenti/videogiochi-violenti.html EU Justice Commissioner highlights dangers of video games glorifying violence (17.11.2006) http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/81200 (Contribution by Andrea Glorioso, Italian consultant on digital policies) ============================================================ 7. Logging of IP addresses banned in Germany ============================================================ On 25 January 2006, the District Court of Darmstadt (Germany) ruled that the German ISP T-Online was legally banned from logging the session IP addresses it assigned to its customers. German law requires this data to be deleted upon termination of the connection as it is not needed for billing purposes. According to the judgement, security requirements do not justify the general logging of all users' IP addresses. The collection of such data is permitted only in reaction to specific incidents (faults or unlawful use) on a case by case basis. On 28 October 2006 The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) dismissed, on formal grounds, the appeal filed by T-Online. The District Court's ruling has thereby become legally binding between the parties of the dispute. The legal reasoning of the court applies more generally to all German ISPs and to all tariff models. A draft complaint for other Germans willing to sue their ISP was published on the internet. The German Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar announced that he would take steps to enforce the ruling in relation to all customers. The plaintiff Holger Voss was prosecuted in 2003 for supposedly having endorsed the 9/11 bomb attacks in an Internet forum. Only in court room was it found that his remarks were clearly of a sarcastic nature. In consequence, Voss was acquitted. In order to trace Voss' forum post, the prosecutors had asked the forum provider Heise to hand over the poster's IP address. Voss' ISP T-Online then told the prosecutor whom the IP address had been assigned to. The T-Online case raised voices pointing out that German law also bans web site providers such as Heise, Amazon and Ebay from logging the IP addresses of their users. At present such logging is widespread, partly because US designed software (including open source software) does not take data protection requirements into account. Data protection expert Patrick Breyer called for a law mandating commercial software for sale in Europe to be provided with a standard configuration that conforms to European data protection requirements. Ruling of the District Court of Darmstadt on IP logging (in German only) http://www.olnhausen.com/law/olg/lgda-verbindungsdaten.html Draft complaint against log retention (in German only) http://www.daten-speicherung.de/wiki/index.php/Musterklage (Contribution by Patrick Breyer - Working Group on Data Retention - Germany) ============================================================ 8. Swiss Big Brother Awards 2006 ============================================================ On 16 November 2006, Sudhaus cultural centre of Bble hosted the Swiss Big Brother Awards ceremony of 2006 organised by Archives de l'Etat Fouineur Swiss and the EDRI-member Swiss Internet User Group SIUG. The jury deciding on the winners included 11 people from various institutions and organizations having acted against control and surveillance. The winners received concrete trophies, a certificate and were mentioned on the "Hall of Shame" list. The trophy for the category "State" was awarded to the Federal Council of Corpore represented by Christoph Blocher, the head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police for the application of internal security measures involving phone tapping, secret search of information systems and installation of secret microphones in apartments without concrete basis just under the cover of preventive investigations. The winner of the "Business" category was the insurance company Assurance CSS for having given their collaborators large access to their clients' data that included medical information and even HIV test results. Other candidates were companies such as Microsoft, Cablecom, Swisscom or Cridit Suisse as well as many sports clubs and associations and transport companies who survey their employees and clients. The "Working Place" category was won by the Dietikon branch of the Media-Markt chain where the employees were continuously under surveillance not only at their working place, but even in the rest rooms. The fourth award for the category "Activity" was received by Hans Wegmuller, director of SRS (Strategic Information Service), a department created 5 years ago which is actually the military Swiss Intelligence Service, a service that uses ONYX telecom mass surveillance devices. Besides the negative awards, a positive "Winkelried" award has been lately given during BBA ceremonies. This year, the Swiss awarded this to the Referendum Committee LMIS, made out of groups of sports fans and political groups that will launch a referendum in Spring against the introduction of an "anti-hooligan" law. Press Release Big Brother Awards 2006 (Only in French - 16.11.2006) http://www.bigbrotherawards.ch/2006/presse/pressemitteilungen/bba.pressemitt... ilung.20061116.6f.txt ============================================================ 9. Italian postal codes are again freely accesible ============================================================ At the end of September 2006, after a reorganisation of the postal codes system (CAP), the Italian Post (Poste Italiane), now a private company, as well as the Italian Ministry of Communications have changed the way in which one could access the postal code online , limiting it to just one entry at a time, without the possibility to access the entire database. A multiple query could be made only by buying a proprietary software sold by Poste Italiane. According to the Italian laws, postal codes, together with telephone numbers, laws and normative acts are public data, but also in the public domain, and therefore should be publicly available without restrictions. Further more, the postal codes, as public information, are collected and gathered with public money and therefore Poste Italiane cannot consider itself as the owner of these data and should not condition the access to a proprietary software that runs only on a single operating system. Poste Italiane has put out for sale a CD costing 6.9 Euro that can be run only on Windows system. However, also free software was available for the same purpose, such as Trovocap, a program allowing the search of postal codes on Linux, Windows and McOS as well. Caprone, another free software available in Linux and Windows versions even allowed the arrangement of the postal codes in various formats. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) considered that public data should be universally available without discrimination and drafted an open letter addressed to the Ministry of Communications asking that the postal codes list should be available as before. In the meantime, with the assistance of the Italian FSDE team, it has rebuilt the codes list from the Poste Italiano site, through a crawler and has made it publicly available in a SQL format. The list is not entirely complete yet and those who intend to use it for professional purposes are advised of this risk. For whom the zip tolls ? (only in Italian, 20.11.2006) http://www.piana.eu/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=1 4 The Italian ZIP codes freed (Only in Italian - 06.11.2006) http://www.italy.fsfeurope.org/it/projects/cap/ (Thanks to Stefano Maffulli - FSFE Italy) ============================================================ 10. FIPR report on children's databases - likely to harm rather than help ============================================================ The UK Information Commissioner has just published a report on the UK Government's plans to link up most of the public-sector databases that contain information on children. The report was written by experts from the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), who conclude that aggregating this data will be both unsafe and illegal. The report, 'Children's Databases: Safety and Privacy', analyses databases being built to collate information on children in education, youth justice, health, social work and elsewhere. Although linking the databases is supposed to safeguard children, the report's authors point out that extending Britain's child protection systems - from the 50,000 children at substantial risk of serious harm to the 3-4 million children with some health, education or other welfare issue - means that child protection will receive less attention. The project will also feed information into police systems that try to identify children likely to offend by scoring various risk factors (socioeconomic status, medical diagnoses such as hyperactivity, school conduct reports, and whether the child's father has been in prison). This carries a serious risk of stigmatising innocent children, and may also undermine children's and patents' trust in doctors, teachers and other professionals. The report's authors also conclude that the systems will intrude so much into privacy and family life that they will violate European data protection law and human rights law. Report "Children's Databases - Safety and Privacy" (22.11.2006) http://www.fipr.org/childrens_databases.pdf IT systems designed to protect kids will put them at risk instead (22.11.2006) http://www.fipr.org/press/061122kids.html (Contribution by Ross Anderson, EDRI-member FIPR, UK) ============================================================ 11. Support EDRI-gram ============================================================ European Digital Rights needs your help in upholding digital rights in the EU. Thanks to your last years donations EDRi is able to issue 24 editions of EDRi-gram in 2006. To continue with EDRi-gram in 2007 we again ask for your support. If you wish to help us promote digital rights, please consider making a private donation, or interest your organisation in sponsorship. We will gladly send you a confirmation for any amount above 250 euro. KBC Bank Auderghem-Centre, Chaussie de Wavre 1662, 1160 Bruxelles, Belgium Name: European Digital Rights Asbl Bank account nr.: 733-0215021-02 IBAN: BE32 7330 2150 2102 BIC: KREDBEBB ============================================================ 12. Agenda ============================================================ 22-24 November 2006, Barcelona, Spain UOC UNESCO Chair in eLearning Third International Seminar: Open Educational Resources: Institutional Challenges http://www.uoc.edu/web/eng/index.html 30 November - 1 December 2006, Berlin, Germany The New Surveillance - A critical analysis of research and methods in Surveillance Studies. A two day international Conference hosted at the Centre for Technology and Society of the Technical University Berlin. http://www.ztg.tu-berlin.de/surveillance 2 December 2006, London, United Kingdom Reclaiming Our Rights www.londonmet.ac.uk/reclaimingourrights 6 December 2006, Oxford, United Kingdom The Internet: Power and Governance in a Digitised World http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/jcr/stair 11-12 December 2006, Paris, France LeWeb3: Third Les Blogs Conference http://www.leweb3.com/leweb3 14 December 2006, Madrid, Spain Conference on the Admissibility of Electronic Evidence in Court in Europe. The final event of the project Admissibility of the Electronic Evidence in Court in Europe (A.E.E.C.) funded by the European Commission and led by the Spanish company Cybex. http://www.cybex.es/AGIS2005/ 20 January 2007, Paris, France Big Brother Awards France http://bigbrotherawards.eu.org/ ============================================================ 13. 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