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Education (2021)

Proctorio GmbH

Proctorio GmbH receives the BigBrotherAwards 2021 for its offer of “fully automatic exam supervision”, which supposedly facilitates total control of students in online exams. During an exam, the AI-based software is said to be…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde

Ein Gehirn mit einem Stirnband aus Plastik. Davor die Logos von BrainCo und des Leibniz Wissenschaftscampus.

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Education (2020)

BrainCo company and Leibniz Science Campus Tübingen

The company BrainCo receives the BBA in the “Education” category for its EEG headbands, which can allegedly measure students’ attention by their brain activity. The attention level is signalled by an LED on the headband and…

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Rena Tangens

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Education (2017)

Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) receive the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the “Education” category for cooperating with the online learning provider Coursera. Data about…

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Frank Rosengart

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