Regiemonitor mit unterschiedlichen Kameraeinstellungen der BigBrotherAwards-Aufzeichnungen 2018.

20 Apr 2018 Stadthalle Bielefeld

BigBrotherAwards 2018

Curtains up for the BigBrotherAwards

This year the Theater Bielefeld provides us with a grand stage. Business Informatics professor Sarah Spiekermann appears for a keynote. Our well rehearsed jury members live up to their roles and bestow negative awards to the concept of the “Smart City”, Microsoft Germany, Cevisio Software and Systems, the groups of the (conservative) CDU and Green parties in the parliament of Hesse and Amazon’s eavesdropping device, Alexa. Big applause.

The (unfortunate) Awardees 2018

Im Vordergrund das Wort „Smart Cities“ gefüllt mit Binärcode bzw. sehen die Buchstaben teilweise wie Kameras und Personen aus. Im Hintergrund die Skyline einer Großstadt.

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PR & Marketing (2018)

Idea of a “Smart City”

The BigBrotherAward 2018 in the “PR and Marketing” Category goes to the idea of a “Smart City”. The advertising concept of a “Smart City” is used by tech companies to try to sell the idea of a “safe city” to municipal…

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Rena Tangens

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Technology (2018)

Microsoft Germany

Microsoft Germany, represented by Sabine Bendiek, Chairwoman of the Management Board, receives the BigBrotherAward 2018 in the Technology category for implanting telemetry (i.e. the transmission of diagnostic data) in Windows 10…

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Frank Rosengart

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Administration (2018)

Cevisio Software und Systeme GmbH

The BigBrotherAward 2018 in the “Administration” Category goes to Cevisio Software und Systeme GmbH & Co. KG in Torgau, Germany, for their software Cevisio Quartiermanagement (QMM), which is used in refugee shelters. This software…

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Dr. Thilo Weichert

Eine Uhr und Amazon Alexa auf einer gräulichen Oberfläche, darüber der Text: „Das Lauschangriffdöschen für zu Hause“.

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Consumer Protection (2018)

Amazon Alexa

Amazon receives the BigBrotherAward 2018 in the “Consumer Protection” category for its nosy, impertinent, all-too clever and gossipy bugging operation in a can by the name of Alexa. It is well known that Alexa’s speech recordings…

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Grafik: Eine Person sitzt an einem Schreibtisch. Auf dem Schreibtisch stehen mehrere Monitore. Dahinter die Logos der CDU und B'90/DieGrünen.

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Politics (2018)

Parliamentary groups of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Greens in Hesse

The parliamentary groups for the Christian-Democratic and the Green parties in the state parliament of Hesse receive the BigBrotherAward 2018 in the Politics category for their plans for a new domestic intelligence law. The draft…

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Dr. Rolf Gössner

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Workplace (2018)

Soma Analytics

The company “Soma Analytics” receives the BigBrotherAward 2018 in the “Workplace” category for their efforts to propagate their health app “Kelaa” and the “Kelaa Dashboard” among the human resources departments of companies. The…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde

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Audience Award (2018)

Protect us, don’t Spy on us

In our new venue we continued the tradition of asking our audience which award they had found particularly “impressive, surprising, shocking, or outrageous”.

Show Awardees-Overview

Jury 2018

Rena Tangens

Digitalcourage

Frank Rosengart

Chaos Computer Club (CCC)

Dr. Thilo Weichert

DVD, Netzwerk Datenschutzexpertise

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Digitalcourage

Dr. Rolf Gössner

Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte (ILFM)

Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde

Frankfurt University of Applied Science

Sarah Spiekermann am Redner.innenpult während der BBAs 2018

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Keynote (2018)

Digital Technology and the Fight for Values

Sarah Spiekermann of the Vienna University of Economics and Business held an unscripted keynote at the Big Brother Awards 2018. This is her pre-written abstract.