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Das Logo der „Deutschen Bahn“ im Mosaik-Stil.

Logo: Deutsche Bahn | Bearbeitung: Melanie Lübbert

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

Bild: Picture Alliance © | Bearbeitung: Melanie Lübbert

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

Illustration: Isabel Wienold | Bearbeitung: Melanie Lübbert

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
Zustellungsbenachrichtigung von DHL. Allerdings mit Pesthörnchen statt Posthörnchen und dem Text "Eine persönliche Zustellung was am 28.04. um 18:00 h leider nicht möglich. An DHL 1 BigBrotherAward, Abholung ab Montag 11:00 Uhr bei Digitalcourage e.V.
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Consumer Protection (2023)

Deutsche Post DHL Group

Deutsche Post DHL Group receives the BigBrotherAward 2023 in the Consumer Protection category for their practices of digital coercion. Through changes in the operation of DHL’s parcel locker stations, they want to force customers…

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Rena Tangens
Logo von ChatGPT mit dem HAL-9000-Auge in der Mitte.
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Lifetime Award (2023)

Microsoft

The Big Brother Award 2023 in the category "Lifetime Achievement" goes to Microsoft, because with their market dominance, the company forces people, companies and government agencies to continually transmit data, and therefore to…

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Dr. Thilo Weichert
Eine Zoomkonferenz in der ganz viele Zombies abhängen.
Communication (2023)

Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

The BigBrotherAward in the Communications category goes to Zoom Video Communications, Inc., which as a US-based company is obliged to share data with intelligence services, but still claims to be in compliance with the GDPR. Since…

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Zeitstrahl beginnend 2021 und endend mit den BigBrotherAwards 2023. 13 verschiedene Ereignisse sind darin eingetragen: alles Briefe von Finleap.
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Finances (2023)

finleap connect GmbH

The BigBrotherAward in the Finance category is given to the fintech company finleap for the fact that over several years, it has wrongly sent information about changes of bank accounts to organisations that have no stake in the…

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Frank Rosengart
In der Mitte der Grafik ist ein Haus mit Deutschlandflagge und Euro-Symbol. Rechts und links davon angeordnet sind verschiedene Profile von Ebay, Uber, Etsy, aitbnb, vinted und Onlyfans von denen aus Pfeile auf das Haus deuten.
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Authorities & Administration (2023)

Ministry of Finance

The BigBrotherAward 2023 in the category “Government and Administration” goes to the Federal Ministry of Finance, represented by the Finance Minister Christian Lindner. This BigBrotherAward is given for the Law on Tax Transparency…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde
Portraitaufnahme von Uwe Schünemann.
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Politics (2011)

Uwe Schünemann

The BigBrotherAward 2011 in the “Politics” Category goes to The Interior Minister of the federal state of Lower Saxony, Uwe Schünemann (CDU, Germany’s conservative party), for the first proven instance of German police using a…

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Dr. Rolf Gössner

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