Lifetime Award

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

Montage: Grafik zwei Palmen in einer realen Seenlandschaft.

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Lifetime Achievement (2022)

Irish Data Protection Commission

The BigBrotherAward 2022 in the category “Lifetime Achievement” goes to the Irish Data Protection Commission, represented by Helen Dixon, for its continued sabotage of efforts to enforce European data protection law. Under the…

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Rena Tangens

Collage: Zwei Spitzel mit Hut auf der Linken Seite. Rechts daneben eine Art Sticker vom „Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz“. Im Hintergrund eine Straße.

Bild: Collage von Digitalcourage, Grafik von AJ Cann (CC-BY-SA 2.0, Quelle), Hintergrundfoto von Espen Sundve (CC-BY-SA 2.0, Quelle)

Lifetime Achievement (2016)

The Interior Secret Service, “Protection of the Constitution”

The interior secret service known as “Protection of the Constitution” receives a Lifetime BigBrotherAward just as it reaches the official retirement age, for 65 years of violating civil and privacy rights. The “Protection of the…

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Dr. Rolf Gössner

Otto Schily bei einer Wahlkampfkundgebung der SPD in München. Er hebt eine Hand hoch während er am Rednerpult steht.

Image:André Zahn CC-BY-SA 2.0

Lifetime Achievement (2005)

Otto Schily

Mr Otto Schily, former Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany earns a BigBrotherAward for the current undemocratic introduction of the biometric passport, the technology of which is still immature and unsafe and which causes…

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Dr. Rolf Gössner

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Lifetime Achievement (2003)

GEZ

The GEZ ("fee withdrawal centre") earns a BigBrotherAward for their untiring engagement in the relentless detection of public radio and TV licence fee dodgers.

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Dr. Thilo Weichert

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