padeluun is an artist, he is a co-founder and since 2024 the artistic lead of Digitalcourage. Digitalcourage works for a world worth living in the digital age, and since 2000, it organises the German Big Brother Awards in Bielefeld.
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”.
Organised by (among others):
The BigBrotherAwards are an international project: Questionable practices have been decorated with these awards in 19 countries so far.
