Reprimands & Commendation

Reprimands in 2019 go to mood tracker apps, Berlin’s Public Transport Company and the Edeka-Center supermarket in Porta Westfalica. A commendation is given to the physicians’ association Freie Ärzteschaft together with IT service…

Again this year we have had more nominations than we could recognise with an award. Some of those nominated deserve to be reprimanded at least.

Jan Philipp Albrecht is the EU politician thanks to whom we now have a real chance for data protection in Europe. For this, he and his team deserve words of praise at the 2016 BigBrotherAwards.

Again this year we received more nominations than the number of awards we can give. Some of these nominees deserve to be reprimanded at least: Prostitutes Protection Act (Prostituiertenschutzgesetz), Google Impact Challenge and…

Translations for the reprimands are not yet available, sorry.

There were some “lucky losers” that didn’t make it to a full award speech, but which should not be left out completely. We also take a look at the current state of things of an award winner from 2011, Facebook.

Trends Companies allow themselves generous conditions for sharing data Alvar Freude Many companies trading on the internet are including vague or very wide-ranging statements in the privacy sections of their terms and conditions…

With more than 500 nominations, the BigBrotherAwards jury has had to manage a record workload this year – a kind of data mining for data protection and civic rights. It is therefore all the more important to point out that “below”…

Not all nominees for the Big Brother Award have made it. Several times, the jury had great difficulty not to sanction a violation of data protection with one of our unwanted prizes. But data leeches who think they might run off…