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Leuchtwerbung der Metro Group für die "Future Store Initiative".

Consumer Protection (2003)

Metro AG

The Future Store Initiative, Metro AG receives an BigBrotherAward for their "Future Store Initiative" in which the Metro Group is propagating the use of transponders or so-called RFIDs ("Radio Frequency Identification" devices) in…

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Rena Tangens Frank Rosengart

Obere Bildhälfte: Mehrere Polizeiautos. Untere Bildhälfte: Einschlag eines Flugzeuges in das World Trade Center.

Bild: André Karwath (oben – CC-BY-SA 2.5, Quelle), Robert (unten – CC-BY-SA 2.0, Quelle)

Politics (2003)

Federal States

The Federal States Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia earn a BigBrotherAward for their efforts, riding on the issue of fighting terrorism, to tighten their states' police laws, allowing for drastic…

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Dr. Rolf Gössner

Mehrere Personen stehen in einer Warteschlange vor einem Schalter der Deutschen Post.

Image:dirk schaefer CC-BY 2.0 Source

Workplace (2003)

Deutsche Post-Shop

The Deutsche Post-Shop-GmbH earns a BigBrotherAward for questionable components of working contracts with the employees of post agencies.

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Rena Tangens

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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.