Authorities & Administration

Silhouette eines Kopfes (ein Ohr im Fokus). Rechts daneben zwei helle Smartphone-Bildschirme auf dunklem Hintergrund.

Government & Administration (2012)

Saxon Minister of the Interior

The BigBrotherAwards 2012 in the category “Government and Administration” goes to the Saxon Minister of the Interior, Mr. Markus Ulbig, for mobile phone cell queries in the region of Dresden. After about 20,000 people demonstrated…

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Sönke Hilbrans

Werner Hülsmann übergibt auf der Bühne den BigBrotherAward an Herrn Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner.

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Government & Administration: Census

The BigBrotherAward 2011 in the category Government and Administration goes to the chairman of the Census Commission, Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner for the all-encompassing population survey in Germany called “Zensus 2011”. He is…

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Government Authorities & Administration: Monika Harms

The BigBrotherAward in the “Government and Administration” category goes to Germany’s Federal Prosecutor (Generalbundesanwältin), Monika Harms. She receives the BigBrotherAward for her anti-terror measures against opponents of the…

Türschild mit dem Text: „Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“.

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Authorities & Administration (2006)

Conference for Education

And the winner is: the Federal Conference of Ministers for Education. For plans to introduce life-long student IDs, without binding the individual educational data to a defined purpose, nor guarding them against misuse and…

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Karin Schuler

Ein alter Fernseher mit weißem Rauschen.

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Reprimands & Commendation (2006)

A short retrospective ...

About Big Brother on German highways, a fee for computers with access to the internet, a radio or a TV card, RFID politics in Europe, and how that's related to the German BigBrotherAwards.

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Authorities & Administration (2005)

Government of Lower Saxony

The Government of the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), represented through the state's Prime Minister Mr Christian Wulff earns a BigBrotherAward for destroying the data protection authority in Lower Saxony. The supervision…

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Werner Hülsmann

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

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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

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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.