Winners

Das Publikum während der BBAs 2015.
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Audience Award (2015)

A Tight Race

We asked our audience again in 2015 which of our “winners” they found especially “impressive, surprising, shocking, or outrageous”.

Ein Amazon-Logistikzentrum aus der Ferne. Vor dem Gebäude stehen mehrere LKWs.
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Workplace (2015)

Amazon Logistik

The Amazon subsidiaries in Bad Hersfeld and Koblenz receive the BigBrotherAward 2015 in the “Workplace” category for conditions in their employment contracts that violate employees’ personal rights. The companies demand that…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde
Ein Amazon-Logistikzentrum aus der Ferne.
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Business (2015)

Amazon Mechanical Turk and Elance-oDesk

The crowd-working platforms Amazon Mechanical Turk and Elance-oDesk receive the BigBrotherAward 2015 in the Economy category for realising digital day-labourship. A trend which will not only turn our working environment inside-out…

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Rena Tangens
Eine Barbie mit blonden Haaren. Rechts daneben ein Warnschild: „Warning! Audio surveillance. Barbie in operation.“
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Technology (2015)

“Hello Barbie”

“Hello Barbie”, represented by the involved manufacturers Mattel and Toytalk, receives the BigBrotherAward in the Technology category. This doll is equipped with a microphone and Wi-Fi. It uses this to record conversations, sends…

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Linus Neumann
Graffiti in schwarz-weiß von Edward Snowdens Augen. Er trägt eine kantige Brille.
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Positive Award (2014)

Edward Snowden

For the first time, we introduce a positive award this year. The “Julia and Winston Award” was named after the “rebellious” main characters in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”, from which the “Big Brother”concept is also…

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Heribert Prantl
Point of view: Eine Person, die vor einem Fernseher sitzt. Die Fernbedienung in der Hand zeigt Richtung Fernseher. Die Füße sind hochgelegt.
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Consumer Protection (2014)

LG

The South Korean electronics manufacturer LG receives the BigBrotherAward in the Consumer Protection category because the “smart” TV sets they sell transmitted detailed information about what people were watching to the firm’s HQ…

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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.