The Czech police received the 2010 Big Brother mock award for violating people's privacy, the contest's organiser Iuridicum Remedium NGO announced yesterday. Other mock awards, which have been presented for the sixth year in a row, went to the Facebook social network, the Interior Ministry and the European Union. The police became this year's worst snooper for "their serious and long-term interference in people's privacy, mainly for archiving photographs of cars and its drivers from camera-monitoring systems," the organiser said.

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