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BigBrotherAwards 2025

25 years of BigBrotherAwards – that calls for a celebration! On October 10, 2025, at the Hechelei in Bielefeld.

Jury

Rena Tangens am Redner.innenpult der BigBrotherAwards 2021.

Rena Tangens

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Dr. Thilo Weichert am Redner.innepult der BigBrotherAwards 2021.

Dr. Thilo Weichert

Netzwerk Datenschutzexpertise, DVD
Frank Rosengart am Redner.innenpult der BigBrotherAwards 2021.

Frank Rosengart

Chaos Computer Club (CCC)

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The (unfortunate) Awardees

Authorities & Administration (2024)

Saxony Police

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…

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Mobility (2024)

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…

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Updates

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.

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”.

Organised by (among others):

BigBrother Awards International (Logo)

BigBrotherAwards International

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

BigBrotherAwards in the Digitalcourage blog (German)