Winners

Blick auf eine Menge Fußballfans mit Deutschlandfahnen vor einer grißen Leinwand.
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Consumer Protection (2005)

FIFA World Cup 2006

The organising committee for the soccer World Cup within the German football association (Deutscher Fussballbund, DFB) - represented by Mr Franz Beckenbauer earns a BigBrotherAward for the inquisitorial questions asked in ticket…

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Rena Tangens
Detailaufnahme einer Videoüberwachungskamera vor einer großen Fensterfront.
Image:erCC-BY-SA 3.0
Technology (2005)

Video surveillance

The BigBrotherAward in the category Technology goes to a number of very eager surveillance fetishists for the creeping degradation of citizens to objects of continual compulsory observation and playing down the consequences of…

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Karin Schuler
Otto Schily bei einer Wahlkampfkundgebung der SPD in München. Er hebt eine Hand hoch während er am Rednerpult steht.
Image:André ZahnCC-BY-SA 2.0
Lifetime Achievement (2005)

Otto Schily

Mr Otto Schily, former Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany earns a BigBrotherAward for the current undemocratic introduction of the biometric passport, the technology of which is still immature and unsafe and which causes…

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Dr. Rolf Gössner
Außenansicht einer Lidl-Filiale.
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Industrial Relations (2004)

Lidl

Summary: The Big Brother Award in the "Industrial Relations" category is won by the Lidl Stiftung ("Foundation"), Co., in Neckarsulm, represented by the founder and "godfather" of the group, Dieter Schwarz for the almost slave…

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Rena Tangens
Schaufensterfront einer Tchibo-Filiale.
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Business & Consumer Protection (2004)

Tchibo

The BigBrotherAward in the "Business and Consumer Protection" category goes to Tchibo for the practice of forwarding their customers' data to the marketing company Arvato / AZ Direct.

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Frank Rosengart
Portraitaufnahme von Ulla Schmidt.
Image:Moritz KosinskyCC-BY-SA 3.0Source
Health & Social Issues (2004)

Ulla Schmidt

The Big Brother Award in the "Health and Social Issues" category is awarded to the Federal Minister for Health and Social Security, Ms Ulla Schmidt for the bill for the reform of the national health insurance, which came into…

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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.