What makes me really angry

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What makes me really angry (2025)

Cutting Bureaucracy

Deregulation is a poisoned word. It suggests a reduction of bureaucracy that benefits us citizens, because everything becomes simpler and the economy is stimulated. But actually, behind this word is a very different development…

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Rena Tangens
Collage: Präsent in der Mitte oben das Logo von Google. Links darunter ein Stapel Geld, mittig darunter persönliche Daten, rechts darunter ein Richter.innenhammer.
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What makes me really angry (2021)

Google

Google receives the BigBrotherAward 2021 for recently exposed large-scale manipulations of the Internet advertising market, for starving creators and media and for dispossessing our digital personalities.

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Rena Tangens
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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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Logo von Digitalcourage. Links ein gelbes Dreieck. Rechts daneben ein serienloser Schriftzug (Digitalcourage), wobei "courage" fettgedruckt ist.
Dargestellt ist der „Chaosknoten“ als offizielles Logo des CCC. Er ist ein spiegelbildlich dargestelltes Logo des Bundespost-Kabel-TV mit verlängertem und verknotetem Kabelausgang.
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BigBrotherAwards International

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