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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.

Image:Fabian Kurz CC-BY 4.0

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.

Image:Timo Klostermeier CC-BY-NC 3.0

Zeitstrahl beginnend 2021 und endend mit den BigBrotherAwards 2023. 13 verschiedene Ereignisse sind darin eingetragen: alles Briefe von Finleap.

Finances (2023)

finleap connect GmbH

The BigBrotherAward in the Finance category is given to the fintech company finleap for the fact that over several years, it has wrongly sent information about changes of bank accounts to organisations that have no stake in the process. As a consequence, names, dates of birth and new account numbers have got into the wrong hands. Numerous efforts to make the company aware of the problem have been ignored.

Image:Digitalcourage CC-BY 4.0

Portraitaufnahme von Julian Nida-Rümelin.

Public Intellectual (2021)

Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h. c. Julian Nida-Rümelin

The BigBrotherAward 2021 in the category “Public Intellectual” is awarded to the philosopher and vice chairperson of the German Ethics Council, Julian Nida-Rümelin, for his untenable claim, repeatedly made in public, that “data protection” had hindered the fight to contain the Corona pandemic and was responsible for thousands of deaths.

Image:Collage von Dennis Blomeyer, Foto: Perikles CC-BY 3.0 Source

Technology (2016)

Berlin’s Public Transport Company (BVG)

BVG, the Public Transport Company in Berlin, receive the BigBrotherAward 2016 in the Technology Category for the “VBB Fahrcard”, a contactless chipcard also known as “(((eTicket”.

Image:Mary Evans (Hintergrund)CC-BY-SA 2.0

Detailaufnahme eines Gesichts (Nase-Mund-Partie) von einer Person mit einem Headset.

Consumers (2008)

ADM

The BigBrotherAward 2008 in the “Consumers” category goes to the Work Group of German Market and Social Research Institutes (Arbeitskreis Deutscher Markt- und Sozialforschungsinstitute e.V., ADM), represented by its chairman Mr Hartmut Scheffler, further representing the Work Group of the Association of Social Science Institutes (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftliche Institute e.V.), the Professional Association of German Market and Social Researchers (Berufsverband Deutscher Markt- und Sozialforscher e.V.) and the German Association for Online Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung e.V.) — for their recommendation in a guideline to have consumer interviews by telephone monitored secretly, and to continue propagating this illegal guideline even after protests from the data protection authorities.

Image:Dennis Skley CC-BY-ND 2.0 Source

Politics (2011)

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.

Image:Martina Nolte CC-BY-SA Source

Technology (2018)

Microsoft Germany

Microsoft Germany, represented by Sabine Bendiek, Chairwoman of the Management Board, receives the BigBrotherAward 2018 in the Technology category for implanting telemetry (i.e. the transmission of diagnostic data) in Windows 10 that is almost impossible to deactivate. Even skilled users will hardly be able to stop this data from being transmitted.

Image:Collage von Digitalcourage CC-BY-SA 4.0

Deutsche Bahn AG

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: More and more tickets can only be bought in digital and personalised forms, the Bahncard discount card was abolished in its physical form. Passengers are pressed to us the “DB Navigator” app, which users trackers that can not be rejected.

Logo: Deutsche Bahn | Bearbeitung: Melanie Lübbert

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.