Winners

Eine Lupe, die das Facebook-Logo auf der Website vergrößert darstellt.
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Communication (2011)

Facebook

The BigBrotherAward 2011 in the “Communication” category goes to Facebook Deutschland GmbH for systematically poking its nose into people and their relationships, behind the friendly facade of an ostensibly free service. Facebook…

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Rena Tangens
Werner Hülsmann übergibt auf der Bühne den BigBrotherAward an Herrn Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner.
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Authorities & Administration (2011)

Zensus

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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Werner Hülsmann
Ein Yachthafen bei Nacht. Im Hintergrund hell erleuchtete Wolkenkratzer.

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Consumer Protection (2022)

Klarna

The BigBrotherAward in the consumer protection category goes to the Swedish company Klarna Bank AB. Klarna intransparently bundles data and power as a shopping service, payment service provider, price comparison portal, personal…

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padeluun
Ein Kurierfahrer bei Nach mit einem großen Rucksack, der auf sein Handy schaut.

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Workplace (2022)

Lieferando

The BigBrotherAward 2022 in the Workplace category goes to Lieferando and its German representative, the yd.yourdelivery GmbH. Lieferando receives the BigBrotherAward 2022 for exercising illicit, comprehensive control over its…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde
Visualisierung vernetzer Blockchains mit Binärcode.

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Technology (2022)

Bundesdruckerei

The Bundesdruckerei (“Federal Printer”) receives the BigBrotherAward in the Technology category for its senseless use and promotion of blockchain technology, which is not only a waste of energy but also comes with severe data…

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Frank Rosengart
Das Publikum während der BBAs 2021.
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Audience Award (2021)

Too close to call just one winner

As always we asked the people in our (online) audience this year which of the awards they found particularly “impressive, astounding, shocking, revolting, …”.

Eine Person, die mit einem Laptop, auf einem Sofa sitzt, überall liegen Kleidungsstücke durcheinander. Unten links das Logo von proctorio.
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Education (2021)

Proctorio GmbH

Proctorio GmbH receives the BigBrotherAwards 2021 for its offer of “fully automatic exam supervision”, which supposedly facilitates total control of students in online exams. During an exam, the AI-based software is said to be…

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Prof. Dr. Peter Wedde
Collage: Präsent in der Mitte oben das Logo von Google. Links darunter ein Stapel Geld, mittig darunter persönliche Daten, rechts darunter ein Richter.innenhammer.
Image:Collage von Dennis BlomeyerAll rights reserved 
What makes me really angry (2021)

Google

Google receives the BigBrotherAward 2021 for recently exposed large-scale manipulations of the Internet advertising market, for starving creators and media and for dispossessing our digital personalities.

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Rena Tangens
Das Doctolib-Logo zentral in der Mitte. Links davon eine Grafik einer Ärztin, rechts davon ein Grafik eines Patienten. Im Hintergrund des Logos ein Kraken.
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Health & Social Issues (2021)

Doctolib GmbH

The BigBrotherAward in 2021 in the category Health goes to Doctolib GmbH, Berlin. In particular, Doctolib offers the scheduling of doctor’s appointments via its platform. These data are processed in violation of confidentiality…

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Dr. Thilo Weichert

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”.

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Logo von Digitalcourage. Links ein gelbes Dreieck. Rechts daneben ein serienloser Schriftzug (Digitalcourage), wobei "courage" fettgedruckt ist.
Dargestellt ist der „Chaosknoten“ als offizielles Logo des CCC. Er ist ein spiegelbildlich dargestelltes Logo des Bundespost-Kabel-TV mit verlängertem und verknotetem Kabelausgang.
Logo des Vereins „Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz“.
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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.