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

Finances (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

Bild: Collage von Digitalcourage, Foto von Thomas Schlosser (CC-BY 2.0, Quelle)

Economy (2017)

IT business association Bitkom

The German IT business association Bitkom receives the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the “Business” category for their uncritical promotion of big data, for obtrusively lobbying against data protection, and for being a front…

Laudatio

Rena Tangens

Eine schwarze Datenkrake mit der Aufschrift "change.org". In den Tentakeln hält sie diverse Logos sozialer Medien (Facebook, Twitter, E-Mail). Im Hintergrund blauer Binärcode.

Image:Christiaan Colen (Hintergrundbild)CC-BY-SA 2.0 Source

Economy (2016)

Change.org

US company and campaign platform change.org receives the BigBrotherAward 2016 in the Economy category for its business model of marketing personally identifiable information of signatories together with their political statements…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde

Ein Amazon-Logistikzentrum aus der Ferne.

Image:Dominik MüllerCC-BY-SA 3.0

Business (2015)

Amazon Mechanical Turk and Elance-oDesk

The crowd-working platforms Amazon Mechanical Turk and Elance-oDesk receive the BigBrotherAward 2015 in the Economy category for realising digital day-labourship. A trend which will not only turn our working environment inside-out…

Laudatio

Rena Tangens

Überwachungsturm mit einer US-Flagge hinter einer Mauer mit Stacheldraht.

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Business (2014)

CSC

The BigBrotherAward 2014 in the “Business” Category goes to CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation). The company is currently working on commissions by 10 Federal German Ministries on security-related projects, such as the electronic…

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Rena Tangens

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Economy (2013)

Deutsche Post Adress

The BigBrotherAward 2013 in the Economics category goes to Deutsche Post Adress GmbH & Co KG. Millions of people in Germany each year supply data about their addresses and house moves to Deutsche Post, in thousands of post offices…

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Sönke Hilbrans

Image:Hajime NAKANO CC-BY-NC 2.0 Source

Economy (2012)

Brita GmbH

The BigBrotherAward in the category “Economy” goes to Mr Markus Hankammer, CEO of Brita GmbH, for the firm’s water vending machines, marketed under the name “Schoolwater”. These machines deliver water only when a school child taps…

Laudatio

padeluun

Person von hinten, die Kopfhörer trägt und vor einem Zaun steht.

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Business (2009)

Surveillance Technology

The BigBrotherAward 2009 in the “Business” category is given to a handful of German companies that sell Internet and phone surveillance technology and earn good money that way, while preferring to stay unnoticed themselves.

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Frank Rosengart

Ein ICE der Deutschen Bahn, der gerade aus einem Tunnel kommt.

Image:Sebastian Terfloth CC-BY-SA 3.0

Business (2007)

Deutsche Bahn

The BigBrotherAward 2007 in the “Business” category goes to Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railways PLC), represented by its CEO, Hartmut Mehdorn, for their systematic endeavours to make anonymous travelling practically impossible…

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padeluun

Ein alter Fernseher mit weißem Rauschen.

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Reprimands & Commendation (2006)

A short retrospective ...

About Big Brother on German highways, a fee for computers with access to the internet, a radio or a TV card, RFID politics in Europe, and how that's related to the German BigBrotherAwards.

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