Workplace (2014)

RWE

The BigBrotherAward 2014 in the Workplace category goes to RWE Vertrieb AG (RWE is Germany’s second-largest energy utility company, and RWE Vertrieb is its sales subsidiary). The company makes subcontractors use a surveillance software by “Verint Systems”. This software can produce a continuous record of conversations and desktop activities without the workers’ knowledge. This is a representative award for all companies that make use of recording technologies to evaluate call-center workers. And, by the way: Verint Systems also produces monitoring technology for secret services such as the NSA.
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Sönke Hilbrans am Redner.innenpult der BigBrotherAwards 2012.
Sönke Hilbrans, Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz (DVD)

The BigBrotherAward 2014 in the Workplace category goes to RWE Vertrieb AG (RWE Germany’s second-largest energy utility company, and RWE Vertrieb is its sales subsidiary).

The company makes subcontractors use a surveillance software by “Verint Systems”. This software can produce a continuous record of conversations and desktop activities without the workers’ knowledge. This is a representative award for all companies that make use of recording technologies to evaluate call-center workers. And, by the way: Verint Systems also produces monitoring technology for secret services such as the NSA.

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Sönke Hilbrans am Redner.innenpult der BigBrotherAwards 2012.
Sönke Hilbrans, Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz (DVD)

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”.

Organised by (among others):

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BigBrotherAwards International

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