Authorities and Administration: Federal Criminal Police Office
The BigBrotherAward 2022 in the “Authorities and Administration” Category goes to the German Police, represented by the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) for the way personal data are stored in digital files and how they are used. Contrary to constitutional and European legal requirements, data in these files are not labelled, or not labelled appropriately. This entails the risk that the police or other agencies may, without justification, treat millions of people as dangerous persons (German “Gefährder”) or criminal offenders.