Winners

In the “young & surveilled” category at the BigBrotherAwards 2025, the youth organisation Teckids points out two problems from young people’s digital life experience.

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…

The BigBrotherAward in the Workplace category 2025 goes to the Administrative Court Hannover and the Federal Labour Court for drastic miscarriages of justice in cases against Amazon. The Administrative Court Hannover approved of…

The BigBrotherAward in the Technology category goes to Google for the AI assistant Gemini, which is now clandestinely, but compulsorily installed on Android smartphones. Gemini has access to wide-ranging usage and communication…

The BigBrotherAward 2025 in the category Authorities and Administration goes to the Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt for his so-called Security Package, which envisions wide-ranging use of face-search engines. Dobrindt…

The BigBrotherAward 2025 in the “Social Media” Category goes to TikTok for violations of privacy; spreading of fake news and hate speech; manipulating people with respect to their political convictions, their values and their…

The BigBrotherAward 2024 in the category “Consumer Protection” goes to the e-commerce platforms Temu and Shein and their EU headquarters in Ireland. With this BigBrotherAward 2024, we are honouring the fact that both providers…

The BigBrotherAward in the “Mobility” category goes to Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s major railway company, which does everything conceivable to make trail travel without surveillance impossible. Digital coercion is always increased…

The BigBrotherAward 2024 in the “Authorities and Administration” category goes to the Police of the State of Saxony, represented by the Interior Minister of Saxony, Armin Schuster, for pioneering work on their “Video-based Person…

This is not an award for a single candidate, but a pointer to a larger problem: Technology that patronises us, nannies us und unnerves with a know-it-all attitude, that takes decisions away from people, observes them continually…

The BigBrotherAward 2024 in the category “Health” goes to the Federal Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach for the European Health Data Space, EHDS for short, for which he shares responsibility, as well as for its implementation…

Deutsche Post DHL Group receives the BigBrotherAward 2023 in the Consumer Protection category for their practices of digital coercion. Through changes in the operation of DHL’s parcel locker stations, they want to force customers…