8th year (2014)
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 we welcomed at the Office´s premises winners of the 8th edition of the competition "My Privacy! Don´t Look, Don´t Poke About!". They arrived in accompany of their teachers or parents. Mr Igor Němec, president of the Office festively handed over diplomas and prizes. Then, Ms Eva Vrbová, director of the basic identifiers department acquainted the children with the activities of the ORG office which is functional part of the basic register system. Present to the award ceremony was also the editor of the Parlamentní listy newspapers who engaged in discussion with the children.
After a pleasant get-together with members of the press department, children with their accompany visited the historic rooms of Clementinum, including the Mirror Chapel to where they were accompanied by Mr Giebisch from the Association of Library and Information Professionals, partner of the competition since many years. Later, they used the opportunity to learn the premises of the Czech Radio Prague, a traditional media partner of this competition.
We congratulate all winners once more, thank all competitors and look forward to next edition of the competition.
Results of the 8th year (2014)
Expert jury met on Wednesday, 14 May 2014 (Ms Helena Kačerová, Czech Radio, Mr Roman Giebisch, Association of Library and Information Professionals of the Czech Republic, Ms Lenka Eckertová, Saferinternet, and members of the Office´s press department) to choose out of incoming 35 texts and 101 draft badges the following winners.
| Texts: | Badges: |
| Tomáš Macalík, Purkyně grammar school of Strážnice | Michal Klíma |
| Kristýna Zadinová, Druhanov, Světlá nad Sázavou | Jakub Komosný, Blansko |
| Kateřina Uhlířová, Louny | Domonik Brázda |
We congratulate all awarded youngsters and extend our thanks to the schools which devoted their attention to the issue of personal data protection. Other competitors have also our thanks for their contributions. We look forward to meeting the winners on 11 June 2014 at the award-giving ceremony at the Office for Personal Data Protection. We have prepared an accompanying program as well.
Personal Data Protection Day 2014
Competition for children and youth
“My Privacy! Don’t look, don’t poke about!”
8th Edition
Once posted online we lose control over our information. We will never be certain what would happen with it. What do kids and youth as regular Internet users think about this matter? Imagine someone publishes your personal data (for instance name, birth number, home address, state of health, or even genetic or biometric data). What could happen? Kids are invited to write a story, essay, screen play. They even can record their story on video as a play or present it as cartoon.
We have an alternative for those who prefer drawing and painting. They can design a badge thematically related to personal data and privacy protection to be worn by teenagers on their backpacks. Attention! The size and concept of the proposal should correspond with the diameter of the badge which usually is 6 cm.
Youngsters up to 18 years of age are encouraged to send their creations (please don´t forget to mention your name, address and age*) by 15 April 2014 either electronically to soutez@uoou.cz (maximum file size 3 MB) or by ordinary post to Office for Personal Data Protection, Press Department, Pplk. Sochora 27, 170 00 Prague 7 (please mark the envelope by the word “Privacy“).
Authors of the best proposal will be invited to Prague to award ceremony. An interesting program will be waiting for the winners.
* Address will be used for competition purposes only, name and age will if need be used for promotion of data protection unless we don´t receive your explicit wish not to publish the submitted proposal for promotional purposes.
Partners of the competition:
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