Into the surveillance mosaic with German Railways, Health Data Spaces, and Beeps

Despite heavy criticism of the electronic patient file and the project of the European Health Data Space, Karl Lauterbach would not give up on his strive for his first Big Brother Award. Joining him as winners this year were: Saxony Police under the leadership of the state’s interior minister Armin Schuster, the chinese data leeches of online shopping platforms Temu and Shein, and Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) with their art project, the surveillance mosaic. Last but not least, we award Technology Paternalism (in the “Trend” category) for wanting to soothe us into a digital era of incapacity.

The (unfortunate) Awardees

Mobility (2024)

Deutsche Bahn AG

The BigBrotherAward in the “Mobility” category goes to Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s major railway company, which does everything conceivable to make trail travel without surveillance impossible. Digital coercion is always increased…

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Jury

Dr. Thilo Weichert am Redner.innepult der BigBrotherAwards 2021.

Dr. Thilo Weichert

DVD, Netzwerk Datenschutzexpertise
Frank Rosengart am Redner.innenpult der BigBrotherAwards 2021.

Frank Rosengart

Chaos Computer Club (CCC)
Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde am Redner.innenpult der BigBrotherAwards 2021.

Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde

Frankfurt University of Applied Science
padeluun am Redner.innenpult der BigBrotherAwards 2021.

padeluun

Digitalcourage
Rena Tangens am Redner.innenpult der BigBrotherAwards 2021.

Rena Tangens

Digitalcourage

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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”.

Organised by (among others):

BigBrother Awards International (Logo)

BigBrotherAwards International

The BigBrotherAwards are an international project: Questionable practices have been decorated with these awards in 19 countries so far.