Winners

Again this year we have had more nominations than we could recognise with an award. Some of those nominated deserve to be reprimanded at least.

DİTİB camilerinde çalışan bazı imamların, üyeler ve camileri ziyaret eden kişilerle ilgili Türk resmi makamları ve Milli İstihbarat Örgütü MİT’e casusluk yapıp, bu kişilerin Türk devleti tarafından kovuşturulmasına sebep oldukları…

The company PLT – Planung für Logistik & Transport GmbH (Planning for Logistics and Transport) receives the BigBrotherAward in the Workplace category for its PLT Staff Tracker. This device provides employers with real-time…

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) receive the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the “Education” category for cooperating with the online learning provider Coursera. Data about…

The German IT business association Bitkom receives the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the “Business” category for their uncritical promotion of big data, for obtrusively lobbying against data protection, and for being a front…

The company Prudsys receive the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the “Consumer Protection” category because they offer software that facilitates price discrimination. This software sets a price according to what it can find out about the…

The German Federal Military (“Bundeswehr”) and the Federal Minister of Defence receive the 2017 Big Brother Award in the category Authorities and Administration for the military’s massive digital arms build-up including the new…

The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) receives the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the “Politics” category because imams at DİTİB – acting for the Turkish government and its secret service MİT – are said to have…

At the end of the BigBrotherAwards gala 2016, we gave our audience their say as usual. Our guests could et us know in a vote which of the awards they found especially “impressive, surprising, shocking, or outrageous”. The result…

Jan Philipp Albrecht is the EU politician thanks to whom we now have a real chance for data protection in Europe. For this, he and his team deserve words of praise at the 2016 BigBrotherAwards.

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”.

Again this year we received more nominations than the number of awards we can give. Some of these nominees deserve to be reprimanded at least: Prostitutes Protection Act (Prostituiertenschutzgesetz), Google Impact Challenge and…