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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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Pfeile an einer Wand, die in unterschiedliche Richtungen zeigen.

Trends and Outlook

More and more data is raised “incidentally”. Some could be avoided, but not all. We must think about rules that could make a digitally networked world worth living in – each one of us and most of all, all of us together. Because we do of course have something to hide and protect: our private sphere.

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Ein ICE der Deutschen Bahn, der gerade aus einem Tunnel kommt.

Business (2007)

Deutsche Bahn

The BigBrotherAward 2007 in the “Business” category goes to Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railways PLC), represented by its CEO, Hartmut Mehdorn, for their systematic endeavours to make anonymous travelling practically impossible: abandoning ticket counters, ticket machines not accepting cash, personalised ticket selling on the internet, birth date and photo as mandatory items for buying the discount pass (BahnCard), ubiquitous video surveillance, an RFID chip in the all-inclusive one-year ticket (BahnCard 100) without customers being informed, and much more.

Image:Sebastian Terfloth CC-BY-SA 3.0

Eine Zoomkonferenz in der ganz viele Zombies abhängen.

Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

The BigBrotherAward in the Communications category goes to Zoom Video Communications, Inc., which as a US-based company is obliged to share data with intelligence services, but still claims to be in compliance with the GDPR. Since a relevant part of its development takes place in China, Zoom is also subject to Chinese control and censorship. The award also goes to all organisations, in particular those working on human rights, the environment and the climate crisis, who use Zoom and therefore expose their participants to surveilance, even though free and privacy-friendly alternatives are available.

Politics: Uwe Schünemann

The BigBrotherAward 2011 in the “Politics” Category goes to The Interior Minister of the federal state of Lower Saxony, Uwe Schünemann (CDU, Germany’s conservative party), for the first proven instance of German police using a miniature surveillance drone at a political gathering. During demonstrations and protest events against the transport of nuclear waste in the Wendland region in November 2010, there have been four instances of “flying eyes” covertly spying on and controlling demonstrators from the air. Such airborne surveillance is highly disputed in legal circles – it can violate personality rights of the affected persons, and it can have highly intimidating and deterring effects on participants of a public gathering.

BigBrotherAwards-Verleihung am Freitag, den 13. April 2012

Der Negativpreis schlägt große Dellen in das Image der "Preisträger". Firmen und Behörden, die unverantwortlich mit Daten der Bürgerinnen und Bürger umgehen, Politiker, die immer neue Überwachungsgesetze aus dem Hut ziehen, werden ausgezeichnet und sehen sich im peinlichen Rampenlicht. Nach dem Medienecho der vergangenen Verleihungen hatten die PR-Abteilungen von Apple, Facebook und Gerry Weber, drei Themen aus dem vergangenen Jahr, alle Hände voll zu tun. Auch in diesem Jahr wird es spannende Preisträger geben, das garantiert die Jury, die sich ansonsten wie bei der Oscar-Verleihung in…

Opening Adress (2016)

Guest speaker: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger

The former Federal Minister for Justice, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is our guest speaker at the 2016 BigBrotherAwards.

Welcome to the German BigBrotherAwards

The BigBrotherAwards Germany were launched to encourage public debate about privacy and data protection. It is their purpose to highlight abusive uses of technology and information. Nominate now for the BigBrotherAwards 2015 We are accepting nominations for the BigBrotherAwards 2015 until Sunday, 18 January 2015. We are curious about and looking forward to your suggestions. Our (German only) nomination page awaits you. The German BigBrotherAwards gala took place on 11 April 2014 in Bielefeld, Germany. Full English texts of the award speeches can be found here. This year’s jury was made up with…

2013

The 13th BigBrotherAwards were presented in Bielefeld on April 12, 2013.

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde

Peter Wedde is Professor for Industrial Law and Information Society Law at the Frankfurt University of Applied Science, as well as an editor and author.

Position / Organisation

Frankfurt University of Applied Science

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BigBrotherAwards – Reichen Sie Ihre Vorschläge bis Ende Dezember ein

Es hört einfach nicht auf, Überwachung durch die NSA, der Verkauf von vertraulichen Kundendaten, die Datenkraken Google und Facebook, Unternehmen und Regierungen, die unser Privatleben mit neuester Technik schon längst durchleuchtet und kategorisiert haben. Aber nicht nur die ganz Großen sind beim Thema Datenmissbrauch weit vorne: Wenn Sie einen Chef kennen, der seine Mitarbeiter bespitzelt, Menschen systematisch überwacht werden, Persönliches plötzlich zu Konsumforschung genutzt wird, dann ist es Zeit, mit Ihrer Nominierung ein Zeichen zu setzen. Vielleicht wird ja ihre Nominierung am 11…

Detailaufnahme eines Überweisungsträgers, der nicht ausgefüllt ist.

Business (2006)

SWIFT

The BigBrotherAward in this category goes to: SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), for sharing bank transfer data with US authorities.

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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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BigBrotherAwards International

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