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28 Apr 2023 Hechelei Bielefeld

BigBrotherAwards 2023

The 23rd German BigBrotherAwards will be celebrated today, 28 April 2028 at 18:00 CEST at the Hechelei in Bielefeld. The event will be livestreamed here. Pre-sales have ended; get your tickets at the entrance.

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The (unfortunate) Awardees 2023

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Authorities & Administration (2023)

Ministry of Finance

The BigBrotherAward 2023 in the category “Government and Administration” goes to the Federal Ministry of Finance, represented by the Finance Minister Christian Lindner. This BigBrotherAward is given for the Law on Tax Transparency…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde

Zeitstrahl beginnend 2021 und endend mit den BigBrotherAwards 2023. 13 verschiedene Ereignisse sind darin eingetragen: alles Briefe von Finleap.

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Finanzen (2023)

finleap connect GmbH

The BigBrotherAward in the Finance category is given to the fintech company finleap for the fact that over several years, it has wrongly sent information about changes of bank accounts to organisations that have no stake in the…

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Frank Rosengart

Eine Zoomkonferenz in der ganz viele Zombies abhängen.

Communication (2023)

Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

The BigBrotherAward in the Communications category goes to Zoom Video Communications, Inc., which as a US-based company is obliged to share data with intelligence services, but still claims to be in compliance with the GDPR. Since…

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padeluun

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Lifetime Award (2023)

Microsoft

The Big Brother Award 2023 in the category "Lifetime Achievement" goes to Microsoft, because with their market dominance, the company forces people, companies and government agencies to continually transmit data, and therefore to…

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Dr. Thilo Weichert

Zustellungsbenachrichtigung von DHL. Allerdings mit Pesthörnchen statt Posthörnchen und dem Text "Eine persönliche Zustellung was am 28.04. um 18:00 h leider nicht möglich. An DHL 1 BigBrotherAward, Abholung ab Montag 11:00 Uhr bei Digitalcourage e.V.

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Consumer Protection (2023)

Deutsche Post DHL Group

Deutsche Post DHL Group receives the BigBrotherAward 2023 in the Consumer Protection category for their practices of digital coercion. Through changes in the operation of DHL’s parcel locker stations, they want to force customers…

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Rena Tangens

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Updates

Not to worry, we do not keep the roughly 150 awardees since the year 2000 under constant surveillance. We are not an intelligence agency! But we have followed some of them. Sadly, we currently do not have the capacity to translate our updates into English.

Trojaner-Hersteller FinFisher insolvent
29 Mar 2022
Update zu BBAs

2012
Microsoft kauft KI-Unternehmen Nuance
12 Apr 2021
Update zu BBAs

2018
Schufa nimmt Kontodaten-Schnüffelei teilweise zurück
24 Mar 2021
Update zu BBAs

2001

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About BigBrotherAwards

In a compelling, entertaining and accessible format, we present these negative awards to companies, organisations, and politicians. The BigBrotherAwards highlight privacy and data protection offenders in business and politics, or as the French paper Le Monde once put it, they are the “Oscars for data leeches”.

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