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BigBrotherAwards 2024

Into the surveillance mosaic with German Railways, Health Data Spaces, and Beeps

Despite heavy criticism of the electronic patient file and the project of the European Health Data Space, Karl Lauterbach would not give up on his strive for his first Big Brother Award.

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The (unfortunate) Awardees 2024

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Health & Social Issues (2024)

Federal Minister for Health, Karl Lauterbach

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…

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Dr. Thilo Weichert

Das Personen-Identifikations-System in Görlitz, wie es die Polizei Sachsen „scannt“.

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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Frank Rosengart

„Umgestaltete“ Logos der Unternehmen Temu und Shein.

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Consumer Protection (2024)

Temu & Shein

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…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde

Logo: Deutsche Bahn | Bearbeitung: Digitalcourage (ML)

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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padeluun

Illustration: Ein Kind wird auf dem Kopf getätschelt. Deneben das Wort „Technikpaternalismus“.

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Trend (2024)

Technology Paternalism

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…

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Rena Tangens

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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.

Digitalzwang der Deutschen Bahn ausgebremst
23.07.2025
Update zu BBAs

2024
Systemausfall bei DHL-Packstationen
30.10.2024
Update zu BBAs

2023
Trojaner-Hersteller FinFisher insolvent
29.03.2022
Update zu BBAs

2012

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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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