Andreas Liebold hält zwei Fotos von der BBA-Statue hoch.

24 Oct 2003 Ravensberger Spinnerei

BigBrotherAwards 2003

No Future Store!

Retail conglomerate Metro AG receive a BigBrotherAward for their attempts to smuggle RFID chips into customer cards in their “Future Store”. A scandal that will make waves for years to come. Other winners are Deutsche Post Shop (following the award to their parent company in the previous year), the US government, the broadcasting licence fee collectors GEZ for their lifetime achievements, as well as T-Online. The communication company even sends a representative to pick up the award in person. That’s a good connection.

The (unfortunate) Awardees 2003

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

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

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

Image:Svenja S.CC-BY-SA 2.0

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

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Lifetime Achievement (2003)

GEZ

The GEZ ("fee withdrawal centre") earns a BigBrotherAward for their untiring engagement in the relentless detection of public radio and TV licence fee dodgers.

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Dr. Thilo Weichert

Image:A.Savin CC-BY-SA 3.0 Source

Regional (2003)

Dr. Ehrhart Körting

The winner of the regional prize of this year's Big Brother Award is the Interior Senator (minister) of the federal (city) state of Berlin, Dr. Ehrhart Körting for his more than dubious justification for the use of the so-called…

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Dr. Fredrik Roggan

George W. Bush neben zwei weiteren Person in der Seitenansicht.

Image:R. D. Ward Public Domain

Government Authorities (2003)

USA

The government of the USA earns a BigBrotherAward for the coercion of European and especially German airlines into granting various US authorities access to the vast amount of data related to the bookings of all passengers…

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Werner Hülsmann