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10 Oct 2025, Hechelei Bielefeld

BigBrotherAwards 2025

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The (unfortunate) Awardees 2025

„Röntgenaufnahme“ eines Smartphones. Darüber der Text: „Jetzt ‚fest integriert‘: Google Gemini“ mit einem Pfeil auf ein Bauteil des Smartphones.

Bild: Iperron Pixabay-Lizenz | Montage: Melanie Lübbert

Technology (2025)

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…

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Frank Rosengart

Eine Portraitaufnahme von Alexander Dobrindt. Im Hintergrund (unscharf), ganze viele Köpfe von Dobrindt als Muster angeordnet. Unten der Text: „We will watch you“.

Bild: CSU-Landesleitung (Wikimedia) CC-BY SA 3.0, Bearbeitung: M. Lübbert

Authorities & Administration (2025)

Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt

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…

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Elisabeth Niekrenz

Fotomontage: Schild des Bundesverfassungsgericht. Darunter ein weiteres Schild montiert mit der Aufschrift: „Empfohlen von Amazon“.

Foto: Christoph Hoffmann CC-BY-SA 2.0 | Montage: Tobias Oubaid

Workplace (2025)

Administrative Court Hannover and Federal Labour Court

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…

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Katharina Just

Bild: Randy Fath Unsplash-Lizenz Quelle, Bearbeitung: Melanie Lübbert

Social Media (2025)

TikTok

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…

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Dr. Thilo Weichert

Image:Teckids, Dennis Blomeyer und Digitalcourage CC-BY-SA 4.0

young & surveilled (2025)

social exclusion through WhatsApp; iPad coercion in schools

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

Eine Europakarte, darüber das Wort „Bürokratieabbau“ in ungewöhnlicher Silbentrennung: Bür, ok, rat, iea, bba, u.

Screenshot: openstreetmap.org, Bearbeitung: Melanie Lübbert

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

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Not to worry, we do not keep the roughly 150 awardees since the year 2000 under constant surveillance. We are not an intelligence agency! But we have followed some of them. Sadly, we currently do not have the capacity to translate our updates into English.

Datenleck bei Hotelsoftware
27.10.2025
Update zu BBAs

2007
Maulkorb für DPC-Kritiker.innen?
27.10.2025
Update zu BBAs

2022
Hauptsache unternehmensfreundlich
27.10.2025
Update zu BBAs

2022

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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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