Big Brother Awards

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The data protection officer of Deutsche Telekom AG, Claus-Dieter Ulmer (r.), Receives the BigBrotherAward 2008, presented by Fredrik Roggan (l.), Deputy Chairman of the Humanist Union.

The BigBrotherAwards ( BBA ) are negative prizes that are given annually in several countries to authorities, companies, organizations and people. According to the founders, the prizes are awarded to those who impair the privacy of people in a special and lasting manner or who have or are making personal data available to third parties . The prizes were received by Microsoft in 2002 , Blizzard Entertainment in 2005 , PTV Planning Transport Verkehr AG in 2007 , Deutsche Telekom in 2008 , and Gert G. Wagner , Chairman of the in 2011Federal Government Censorship Commission , as well as 2016 through Change.org . The organization also gives a positive award to honor people and organizations who have been committed to data protection. In Austria this is the Defensor Libertatis , first awarded in 2005, in Germany the Julia and Winston Award , first in 2014 and named after the main characters of the novel 1984 .

Goal setting

The prices are intended to draw attention to data protection issues and to highlight negative developments. The name of this award is an allusion to the figure of Big Brother (Big Brother) in George Orwell's novel 1984 . The BigBrotherAwards were launched in 1998 by Privacy International . They were awarded for the first time in 1998 in Great Britain , in 1999 for the first time in Austria and since 2000 also in Germany and Switzerland . In 2003 there were already BBA awards ceremonies in 14 different countries.

In Germany, the digitalcourage association (formerly FoeBuD, association for the promotion of public moving and immobile data traffic) is the founder and organizer of the negative price for data octopuses . In addition to digitalcourage, the jury includes six other independent organizations: Chaos Computer Club e. V. (CCC), German Association for Data Protection e. V. (DVD), Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft e. V. (FITUG), Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility e. V. (FIfF), Humanist Union e. V. (HU) and International League for Human Rights (ILMR).

Prize winners in German-speaking countries

Germany

2000

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Loyalty partner For your Payback card
politics Eckart Werthebach , Berlin Senator for the Interior For the planned expansion of telephone surveillance and the required procurement of IMSI catchers
Authorities and administration Deutsche Bahn , represented by Hartmut Mehdorn For video surveillance in the area of ​​the DB
communication GMX Inadequate backup of user emails
Life's work Federal Office of Administration For the central register of foreigners
Regional Stadtwerke Bielefeld Verkehr GmbH For forced sound for the guests of their buses
scene Apache Consortium for the insufficient consideration of privacy concerns in the standard configuration of the Apache web server

2001

category receiver Reason
Politics (Grand Prize) Otto Schily , Federal Minister of the Interior For his advocacy against civil rights, data protection and informational self-determination
Business and finance Informa For the efforts to intensify and automate the so-called scoring of consumers
communication Werner Müller , Federal Minister for Economics and Technology For the Telecommunications Surveillance Ordinance (TKÜV)
Working world ProtectCom For their surveillance products like WebSpy and e-Blaster
Technology / scene price RealNetworks for the in-depth data collection through their streaming media products
Regional Hans Ehrenberg School , Bielefeld For the “school-card” project, which negligently deals with privacy and accustoms young people to monitored consumption and biometrics.

2002

category receiver Reason
Lifetime Microsoft Especially for the introduction of so-called digital rights management (DRM).

For the first time at the German Big Brother Awards, a representative of the winner was present for this award to be picked up at the award gala.

Working world Bayer AG For the practice of subjecting trainees to drug testing before hiring
Regional Fritz Behrens , Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia The attempt to launch an amendment to the Police Act of North Rhine-Westphalia using dubious methods
Consumer protection German Post AG Because of the non-data protection handling of forwarding requests
politics Volker Bouffier , Minister of the Interior of Hesse Because of the resurrection of the court-reprimanded raster search
communication German Federal Council The Federal Council decided to oblige providers to store connection data for the purpose of police use
technology Toll Collect GmbH For the (further) development of satellite-based collection and central processing of movement data in the transport sector
Authorities and administration Federal Criminal Police Office For the introduction of three preventive databases by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) for the storage of personal data

2003

category receiver Reason
Working world Deutsche Post Shop GmbH Employment contracts with agency recipients
Authorities United States government Obligation of airlines to provide access to booking data for all passengers
communication T-Online International AG Saving the IP addresses of flat rate customers
Lifetime Award GEZ Tireless efforts in the investigation of black viewers
politics Federal states of Bavaria , Lower Saxony , Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia Tightening of their state police laws
Regional Ehrhart Körting Questionable justification of the so-called " silent SMS " by the Berlin police
Consumer protection Metro AG Future Store project

2004

category receiver Reason
Working world Lidl Foundation GmbH & Co. The secret video surveillance in some of the German branches; Menstruating employees in branches in the Czech Republic were required to wear a headband so that they could use the toilet outside of the breaks.
Authorities & administration Federal agency for work Hartz 4 , 16-page application forms for ALG 2
Health & Social Ulla Schmidt Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act
communication Armex GmbH Track Your Kid , location monitoring by cell phone
politics Brigitte Zypries Holding on to the Great Eavesdropping as a means of prosecution
Regional price Nikolaus Risch Monitoring of lecture halls and computer rooms with video cameras at the University of Paderborn
technology Canon Germany GmbH Embed an invisible and unique device identifier in color copies
Economy & consumer protection Tchibo direct GmbH Transfer of customer data

2005

category receiver Reason
Lifetime (life's work) Otto Schily , former Federal Minister of the Interior “Undemocratic” introduction of the biometric passport ; Expansion of the German and European surveillance system under the pretext of security and the fight against terrorism
economy Saatgut Treuhand Verwaltungs GmbH ,

represented by managing director Dirk Otten

For data collection on farmers; Suing thousands of unwilling farmers; Obtaining customer data from cooperatives and covert test purchases from farmers. The Saatgut Treuhand suspects the farmers of using potatoes or other crops from their own harvest for sowing next year; for the establishment of a central control structure to collect the so-called replication fees for the seed industry.
Authorities & administration Government of the State of Lower Saxony ,

represented by the Prime Minister Christian Wulff

For the dismantling of data protection supervision in Lower Saxony, which is to be assigned to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior from 2006, and the associated disregard for Directive 95/46 / EC (data protection directive) , which requires complete independence of data protection supervision.
communication Public Prosecutor General of Schleswig-Holstein ,

represented by Erhard Rex

For the large-scale search for witnesses through cell phone location , the first radio cell mass polling, as well as the denial of access to the associated files by the data protection officer of the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
technology Video surveillance everywhere - various candidates For the “creeping degradation” of people to “monitored objects” and the “trivialization of the consequences of comprehensive surveillance”.
Consumer protection World Cup Organizing Committee of the DFB ,

represented by Franz Beckenbauer

For the "inquisitorial" questionnaires for ordering World Cup tickets, for the planned transfer of addresses to FIFA and its sponsors and for the use of RFID "sniffer chips" in World Cup tickets.
politics The Hessian Minister of the Interior, Volker Bouffier For the "preventive" location and tapping of cell phones; for DNA analysis in children under the age of 14 who have committed a crime, for their future prosecution; for the authority of the Hessian police to scan license plates even without suspicion of a criminal offense, and for the use of video surveillance during identity checks.
Regional price Elementary school Ennigloh near Bünde , as well as Volksbank Bad Oeynhausen Herford eG and Sparkasse Herford For passing the names of newcomers to school to these financial institutions for advertising without parental consent.

2006

The award ceremony took place on October 20, 2006 in Bielefeld .

category receiver Reason
economy SWIFT ,
represented by the German SWIFT Supervisory Board members Roland Böff (Senior Vice President, Unicredit Bank ) and Wolfgang Gaertner (CIO, Deutsche Bank ) 		For forwarding international banking transactions to US authorities for approximately five years. Because SWIFT also forwards its intra-European data to the SWIFT-USA servers for backup, this also includes transactions that are not connected to accounts in the USA.
Politics i 4th state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania For the legal permission to eavesdropping without suspicion and for sound recording in public places, in buildings and means of transport.
Politics II Conference of interior ministers For their resolution of September 4, 2006 for a central counter-terrorism database . This is to be filled and used by the Federal German police and all 19 secret services of the federal and state governments.
technology Philips Consumer Electronics Department For the implementation of technical processes and key data in the Orange Book standard (in which Philips was significantly involved) in order to leave a unique serial number on burned CDs during the burn process.
Authorities & administration Conference of Ministers of Education of the Länder For the purpose of centralizing cross-national school statistical data for pupils and teachers and collecting personal data, without tying the individual educational data to fixed purposes and protecting against misuse and unauthorized access.
Consumer protection Association of the German Insurance Industry (GDV) For the creation and use of warning and information files for the insurance industry, with which insurance companies provide extensive data on e.g. B. Collect and exchange insured persons, witnesses and experts without sufficient legal basis and without the knowledge of those concerned.
Audience award Association of the German Insurance Industry See "consumer protection"

2007

The award ceremony took place on October 12, 2007 in Bielefeld .

category receiver Reason
Working world Novartis For spying on one's own employees and the associated violation of fundamental personal rights.
Regional Authority for Education and Sport of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , represented by Senator Alexandra Dinges-Dierig For the establishment of a central student register, which should also be used to track down foreign families without a residence permit.
economy Deutsche Bahn AG To systematically make anonymous travel more difficult, for example using machines that do not accept cash, personalized purchases on the Internet, comprehensive video surveillance, querying the date of birth and a picture when ordering the Bahncard , as well as integrating an RFID chip into it.
Consumer protection Marriott , Hyatt and InterContinental “representing many other” international hotel chains For the collection and storage of personal data of guests, such as drinking and eating habits, pay-TV usage, allergies, contact addresses, credit card details, special requests and complaints.
technology PTV Planning Transport Verkehr AG For the Pay as you drive system, which reports routes and driving behavior to the motor vehicle insurance company.
After the award ceremony, ptv accepted the award as a critical suggestion and was presented with the award sculpture in June 2008 as part of a specialist discussion on the subject of data protection.
politics Federal Minister of Finance Peer Steinbrück For the introduction of a lifelong tax identification number for all residents of Germany.
communication Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries For the draft law on data retention , which deliberately ignores the census ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court.
Authorities & administration Federal Attorney General Monika Harms For their anti-terrorism measures against opponents of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm , in particular systematic mail controls in Hamburg and the order to take body odor samples from those who opposed the summit .
Not price Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble Wolfgang Schäuble explicitly does not receive a (Lifetime) Award, because his demands in the security debate, such as online searches , have made considerable contributions to the privacy awareness of citizens.

2008

The award ceremony took place on October 24, 2008 in Bielefeld .

category receiver Reason
Europe / EU EU Council of Ministers For the EU terror list for which the Council of Ministers is responsible .
Health and social German Employee Health Insurance (DAK) For the inadmissible disclosure of patient data 200,000 chronically ill insured persons to a private company.
Consumer i The members of the 16th German Bundestag For waving through multiple laws that require the collection, long-term storage and disclosure of detailed data about travelers.
Working world and communication Deutsche Telekom AG For the illegal use of telephone connection data to spy on Telekom supervisory boards and journalists.
For the second time at the German Big Brother Awards, a representative of the award winner was present for this award to be picked up at the awards gala.
technology Yello Strom AG For the pioneering role in the introduction of digital current technology for private customers.
politics Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology For the passing of the law on the ELENA procedure and the associated compulsory introduction of the electronic signature .
Consumer II Association of German Market and Social Research Institute e. V. (ADM) For the recommendation in a telephone guideline to secretly listen in to telephone interviews if necessary without the knowledge of the conversation partner

2009

The 10th BigBrotherAwards was presented on October 16, 2009 in Bielefeld .

category receiver Reason
Sports Berlin Organizing Committee for the 2009 World Athletics Championships For comprehensive checking of sports journalists with the help of the security authorities
Working world Claas agricultural machinery, representing all companies that practice employee monitoring For equipping the combine harvesters produced with GPS location systems
politics Ursula von der Leyen For advancing the Access Difficulty Act
economy Firms developing surveillance technology
Life's work Wolfgang Schäuble For the anti-terrorism database , the reconstruction of the BKA , the federal eavesdropping center, etc.

2011

The presentation of the German BigBrotherAwards 2011 took place on April 1st, 2011 in Bielefeld . For the first time, the entire previous calendar year was taken into account for the award.

category receiver Reason
politics Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann (CDU) Under his leadership, a drone was used to monitor a demonstration and secrecy prevented a data protection review.
Working world I German customs and thus the Federal Ministry of Finance For the request to companies that apply for a certificate there to compare the data of their employees with EU anti-terror lists.
World of work II Daimler AG For the practice of requiring all applicants to have blood tests by 2009 .
Authorities and administration For the Federal Statistical Office to the head of the censorship commission, Gert G. Wagner Not only the data storage itself is criticized, but the linking of data from the 2011 census with those of the population registers, the Federal Employment Agency and federal employers.
Wagner was the only one to personally accept the award and face criticism.
Communication i Facebook Germany GmbH For targeted research into people and their personal relationships.
Communication II Apple GmbH, Munich Because of their dubious privacy policies.
Consumer protection Starnberg publishing house for knowledge and innovation Because of a violation of student data protection.
technology Fashion label Peuterey For the sale of garments with an RFID chip hidden under a label with a warning to remove this label.

2012

The German BigBrotherAwards 2012 was presented on April 13, 2012 in Bielefeld .

category receiver Reason
Authorities and administration The Minister of the Interior of the State of Saxony Markus Ulbig (CDU) For 28 radio cell queries in the Dresden area in February 2011.
communication The cloud As a trend to withdraw control of their data from users.
politics Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) For the establishment of a cyber defense center, for the establishment of a joint defense center against right-wing extremism (GAR), in both cases bypassing parliament, as well as for the plan to set up a joint central network file for "violence-related right-wing extremism" as soon as possible.
Consumer protection Blizzard Entertainment For various data protection violations in your online games (e.g. World of Warcraft), above all extensive logging, computer scans and the attempt to force a real name .
technology Gamma Group, represented in Germany by Gamma International in Munich For their surveillance software FinFisher and the sale of software to secret services and government institutions at home and abroad.
Working world Bofrost For unlawful research into data on a works council computer and the installation of the Ultra VNC remote control software on a computer belonging to another works council without the consent of the works council.
economy Brita GmbH For their paid water dispensers in schools as an attempt to establish overtechnology, monitoring and tutelage from early childhood and to make tap water an expensive, exclusive food instead of making it available to children in school as general health care.

2013

The presentation of the German BigBrotherAwards 2013 took place on April 12, 2013 in Bielefeld .

category receiver Reason
Authorities and administration Federal Police For police checks in which people are specifically selected from a crowd based on their external characteristics (e.g. skin color, presumed ethnicity, presumed national origin, presumed religion, language) in order to identify their suspicious facts without reference to specific suspicious behavior or objective evidence Determine personal details.
Global data collection Google Inc. For the collection of real-time data about everything and everyone in disregard of European law and the use of its dominant position in the market to promote the technocratic ideology of an omniscient supercomputer.
politics Prime Minister of the German federal states For setting up the ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio contribution service .
Working world Apple Retail Germany GmbH For the comprehensive video surveillance of employees of the Apple stores in Germany, not only sales and storage rooms are comprehensively and permanently monitored by camera, including the break rooms.
economy Deutsche Post Adress GmbH and Co KG For the marketing of up-to-date address and relocation data of unsuspecting citizens extracted from mail forwarding requests to the advertising industry and debt collection companies .

2014

The German BigBrotherAwards 2014 were presented on April 11, 2014 in Bielefeld .

category receiver Reason
politics Federal Chancellery 1. for the fact that the German secret services cooperate closely with the US secret service NSA, which is in violation of international law and human rights, and other services of the “ Echelon ” secret association of the “ Five Eyes ”, 2. for the fact that the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution are involved in surveillance instruments, spying programs and infrastructures of the NSA ( global surveillance and espionage affair # Germany ) and 3. for the fact that both the old and the new federal government have criminally failed to commit crimes connected with mass investigation and digital espionage , constitution - and to ward off violations of civil rights and to protect German citizens and companies affected by industrial espionage from further hostile attacks.
traffic MyFernbus In addition to the ticket, the Berlin company also requires an official photo ID in order to be able to identify yourself at any time when boarding and further checks. This makes anonymous travel impossible.
technology The spies in the car In addition to data for repairs and maintenance, additional electronic equipment is increasingly collecting data such as distances traveled and times. This enables you to create motion profiles. This is especially true when they are transferred directly to a cloud . This BigBrotherAward is also aimed at the future: the planned European emergency call system eCall has to prove that it is implemented in a data protection-friendly manner.
economy Computer Sciences Corporation While the German subsidiary participates in the state trojan , the De-Mail project and the national weapons register , among other things , the US parent company has close ties to the local secret services NSA and CIA .
Newspeak Metadata Security politicians still use the term to play down data storage because it is not the actual content of an e-mail, for example. In fact, even the analysis of the metadata reveals a surprising amount to the experts about the actions and people being monitored.
Working world RWE Distribution AG For use of Verint Systems monitoring software on call center employees who were employed by subcontractors. With this program, both the phone call and screen actions can be recorded without the employees knowing about it.
Consumer protection LG Electronics The South Korean company sells televisions with Internet access, which provide company headquarters with detailed information about the programs and times viewed.
Julia and Winston Award (positive prize) Edward Snowden The former employee of the American secret services initiated the exposure of the global surveillance and espionage affair .

2015

The fifteenth German BigBrotherAwards were presented on April 17, 2015 in Bielefeld . As in previous years, suggestions from the previous calendar year were taken into account.

category receiver Reason
technology Hello Barbie The award-winning doll from the manufacturers Mattel and Toytalk is equipped with WiFi and a microphone. In this way, she can record and forward interactions with the children playing, parents receive a daily report from the "acoustic monitoring in the children's room".
Authorities and administration Federal Intelligence Service The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) received the award for its continued close cooperation with the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States and for the mass collection and transmission of telecommunications data. This is the BND's first award at the Big Brother Awards.
economy Amazon Mechanical Turk and Elance-oDesk Mechanical Turk and Elance-oDesk are crowdworking platforms on the Internet, operated by Amazon.com. In addition to the criticism of the forms of employment that are independent of existing labor law and that go hand in hand with such platforms, the Amazon companies are particularly criticized for the monitoring of keystrokes and mouse movements by the “digital day laborers” using a so-called team app .
Working world Amazon logistics The logistics subsidiaries of Amazon.com in Bad Hersfeld and Koblenz use clauses in their employment contracts that violate the personal rights of workers in terms of data protection, e.g. B. Health data may be transmitted to the parent company in the United States for processing. A violation of current labor law is the refusal to choose a doctor freely and the release of the doctors from the obligation of confidentiality that applicants would have to sign.
Newspeak "Digital forensic evidence" The creation of the word “digital forensic evidence” is used in the context of the planned renewed introduction of data retention in order to arouse acceptance of the project among the citizens.
Consumer protection Federal Ministry of Health An award was given to the Federal Ministry of Health, represented by Hermann Gröhe , for the promotion of e-health projects. These, according to the laudation, not only endanger the confidentiality between doctor and patient through the collection and potential transfer of patient data, but are embedded in a system that understands and treats health above all as a market worth billions. The electronic health card as part of these projects appeared on the radar of the Big Brother Awards as early as 2004 within the framework of the GKV Modernization Act and thus well before its actual introduction in 2011.
politics Thomas de Maizière and Hans-Peter Friedrich The Federal Minister of the Interior, who was in office in 2014 and the one who preceded him, received a joint award for their "systematic and fundamental sabotage" of a European General Data Protection Regulation, which would have offered an opportunity to establish the comparatively high level of data protection in Germany as a European standard.

2016

The sixteenth German BigBrotherAwards were presented on April 22, 2016 in Bielefeld .

category receiver Reason
Life's work Protection of the Constitution (VS) The Office for the Protection of the Constitution receives the BigBrotherAward 2016 in the Lifetime Achievement category for uncontrolled spying, infiltration, deception and cover-up.
Consumer protection Generali insurance Generali Versicherung, represented by its CEO Giovanni Liverani, received the BigBrotherAward 2016 in the consumer protection category because Generali promises its policyholders bonuses if they are monitored in return for this.
economy Change.org The Change.org campaign platform received the BigBrotherAward 2016 in the business category because it uses the personal data of people who have signed petitions in a variety of and non-transparent ways for its own business purposes.
technology Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) received the BigBrotherAward 2016 in the technology category for the VBB Fahrcard, a contactless chip card, also known as an eTicket .
Working world IBM Germany GmbH IBM Deutschland GmbH received the BigBrotherAward 2016 in the working world category for its “Social Dashboard” software, a point system for analyzing the “social reputation” of its employees.
Newspeak "Wealth of data" The opposite of data economy . The term "Big Data", for which a German translation was previously lacking, probably provided obstetrics.
Honorable Mention Jan Philipp Albrecht and team Jan Philipp Albrecht is an EU politician who significantly promotes data protection.

2017

The seventeenth German BigBrotherAwards were presented on May 5, 2017 in Bielefeld .

The award in the “Politics” category for DİTİB , the association of mosque communities in Germany under Turkish governance , received a particularly strong response in the press reports on the award . Imams working at DİTİB, so the laudation, had extensively monitored members and visitors, but the association did not take any responsibility for this spying. He declared the processes inadmissibly internal, did not face public criticism and had prematurely declared the affair to be over. In order to protect the fundamental rights of believers, the laudation went on, the competent German authorities would have to comprehensively investigate these espionage activities and prosecute them without diplomatic consideration.

In a letter to Digitalcourage, DİTİB protested against criticism in the run-up to the award. He also threatened the club with legal action for defamation .

category receiver Reason
job PLT - planning for Logistik Transport GmbH "... because with the PLT Personal-Tracker they offer a device that enables 'minute-by-minute' and 'uninterrupted tracking' of field staff. This leads to a complete total control of the employees who have to carry this device with them. "
economy Bitkom "The IT industry association receives this Big Brother Award for its uncritical promotion of big data, its penetrating lobbying against data protection and because it is de facto a cover organization of large US corporations that have the say at Bitkom."
politics DİTİB "... because imams working at DİTİB for Turkish authorities and the MİT secret service eavesdropped on their members and visitors and are said to have exposed them to persecution by Turkish government agencies."
education Technical University of Munich and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich "... for the cooperation with the online course provider Coursera ."
Authorities The Bundeswehr and the Federal Minister of Defense, Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) For the establishment of the " Cyber ​​and Information Room Command " (KdoCIR).
Consumer protection Jens Scholz, board member of Prudsys AG, Chemnitz "... for your software for price discrimination, that is, for aiding and abetting price gouging and spreading social unrest."
Reprehensible mentions Public media, unauthorized copies of ID cards, BlaBlaCar and Immobilienscout24, The European Commission, WhatsApp, WordPress / Google Fonts

2018

The presentation of the 18th German BigBrotherAwards took place on April 20, 2018 in the Bielefeld City Theater .

category receiver Reason
Working world Soma Analytics "... for their efforts to place the health app " Kelaa "with employees and the associated Kelaa dashboard in the HR departments of companies"
PR & Marketing Concept of the " Smart City " A “Smart City” is the perfect combination of the totalitarian surveillance state from George Orwell's “1984” and the standardized, only apparently free consumers in Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World”.
technology Microsoft Germany for the telemetry (transmission of diagnostic data) that can hardly be deactivated in " Windows 10 "
administration Cevisio Software and Systems GmbH for their software "Cevisio QMM" (neighborhood management), in cooperation with the German Red Cross specifically for refugee housing was developed
Consumer protection Amazon Alexa a wiretapping interface that disguises itself as an alarm clock, for example, but is an omniscient butler in the service of others who can be carried into the bedroom by me personally and connected to the global surveillance network
politics CDU and Greens parliamentary groups in the Hessian state parliament for their planned new constitutional protection law and for the planned amendment of the Hessian police law
Audience award The audience at the Bielefeld City Theater selected the winner in the Politics category as the one who particularly “impressed, amazed, shocked, outraged ...” them .

2019

The 19th German BigBrotherAwards were presented on June 8, 2019 in Bielefeld.

category receiver Reason
Authorities Peter Beuth for the acquisition and use of analysis software from the US company Palantir , which is close to the CIA , which in this way gains access to the highly sensitive data network of the Hessian police.
Biotechnology Ancestry.com because people interested in genealogy tempted to send in their saliva samples. Ancestry sells the genetic data to commercial pharmaceutical research, enables covert paternity tests and creates the data basis for police genetic screening.
technology "Technical Committee CYBER" of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for the attempt to equip the new technical standard for encryption on the Internet with a predetermined breaking point
Consumer protection Time online for ad trackers and the Facebook pixel, for the use of Google services in the “Germany speaks” project and for the funding of the follow-up project of “Germany speaks” by Google.
communication Precire Technologies GmbH for your speech analysis software. Precire is not only used to pre-select female applicants, but also to analyze the emotions of people who call a hotline.

2020

The presentation of the 20th German BigBrotherAwards was originally planned for April 30, 2020 in Bielefeld. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a related ban on all public events by the city of Bielefeld, it had to be postponed to September 18, 2020.

category receiver Reason
mobility Tesla Inc. for monitoring the interior and surroundings of the car using cameras and sensors
Authorities and administration Ministry of the Interior of Brandenburg for permanent storage of license plates
education BrainCo and Leibniz Science Campus Tübingen for EEG scanners, with the help of which the brain waves of students are to be measured in order to determine their level of concentration and then show them to teachers through headbands
politics Federal government for their legal and political responsibility for the illegal US drone war against the Ramstein Air Base
digitalization Ministry of Education Baden-Württemberg for the cooperation on the digital education platform of the country with Microsoft , winner of numerous Big Brother Awards
Working world HM for years of underhanded and illegal processing of employee data in the H&M customer center in Nuremberg
Oblivion of history Conference of interior ministers for the plans to expand the tax ID into a central personal identification number

Austria

1999

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Credit Protection Association from 1870 for the ongoing publication of unclear and outdated economic and debtor data
politics Austrian EU parliamentarians for the approval of the so-called ENFOPOL wiretapping initiatives
Authorities and administration Statistics Austria Karl Isamberth responsible for the planned census 2001, which is to serve at the same time a comparison with the population register and the introduction of a personal identification number.
Communication and marketing Schober Direct Marketing Offers up to 50 additional personal information for over 5 million Austrian individuals.
Lifetime Achievement Interior Minister Karl Schlögl For a term of office during which fundamental rights such as protection of privacy, protection of personal data and editorial secrecy were constantly being called into question.
People's choice - -

2000

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Saturn , Vienna For Saturn, paying with the ATM card means “irrevocable” consent to the transfer of personal data
politics Action of independent and freedom -
Authorities and administration 'Helmi' - the anonymous police spy Even with a criminal record for drug offenses and always appearing in court masked, he always tells exactly what the police want to hear, and the judges believe him.
Communication and marketing Working group SEC LI ( Lawful Interception ) As an ETSI working group, she is concerned with developing interception standards for all digital telecommunications equipment.
Lifetime Achievement Dieter Bohmdorfer To mobilize jurisprudence as big brother against criticism and free expression
People's choice The Freedom Party of Austria Spy suspicion

2001

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Ars Electronica Downplaying biometrics
politics Mayor Gerhard Köfer ( Spittal an der Drau ) Bounty campaign & spying
Authorities and administration Police chief Herwig Haidinger big advocate of surveillance technology and interfaces directly in Telekom equipment
Communication and marketing Austrian Post AG Selling addresses and working closely with direct marketers, providing information about addresses and using the mailboxes to debt collection agencies and employee monitoring
Lifetime Achievement Karl Isamberth Mastermind behind the socially highly sensitive large-scale projects in censuses and the educational record
People's choice Peter Westenthaler Fingerprint fantasies

2002

category receiver Reason
Business and finance UNIQA health insurance "Relieves" all doctors, health and social institutions of the customer from the professional confidentiality.
politics Erich Haider , governor -Stellvertreter of Upper Austria I want to put "sophisticated computer-controlled surveillance system" into operation immediately
Authorities and administration Innsbruck Vice Mayor Eugen Sprenger Applying for social assistance empowers the local authority to obtain intimate data about the applicant's life from almost any imaginable place without further explanation.
Communication and marketing Klagenfurt Council Chamber After a series of burglaries, decided that all cell phone network operators had to hand over communication data from thousands of customers.
Lifetime Achievement Elisabeth Gehrer Educational record
People's choice Interior Minister Ernst Strasser -

2003

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Salzburg restaurant operator on Rudolfskai Request to have guests through the city video-monitored.
politics EU Commission and Janelly Fourtou IP enforcement directive
Authorities and administration European Patent Office Software and idea patents
Communication and marketing Austrian Post AG Forwarding order automatically leads to the data being passed on to advertising publishers.
Lifetime Achievement (renamed the Lifelong Annoyance Elisabeth Gehrer Prize for the most sustainable approach to the novel in 1984 ) Elisabeth Gehrer Educational record
People's choice Herold GmbH Depth data CD

2004

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Disco WON, Graz Installation of surveillance technology in the disco
politics EU Interior and Justice Ministers from Sweden, France, Ireland, England Guideline proposal on "Data Retention"
Authorities and administration Viennese medical officers, on behalf of all other medical officers Violation of medical confidentiality
Communication and marketing Hutchison Drei Austria - "3" Friendfinder function (geo service), location monitoring via mobile phone
Lifetime Achievement (renamed the Lifelong Annoyance Elisabeth Gehrer Prize for the most sustainable approach to the novel in 1984 ) Elisabeth Gehrer Educational record
People's Choice Linz Strom GmbH The company's PR policy in relation to radio interference detected in the technology it uses

2005

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2005 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Assa, Graz Employee fingerprints and DNA
politics Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat The "New preventive medical check-up" obliges doctors to forward details about the examination or alcohol consumption behavior to the social security funds in a personal and computer-usable manner.
Authorities and administration the Austrian judges The number of call data recording increases by 438% without appropriate control
Communication and marketing Blizzard Entertainment Online role-playing game World of Warcraft for strategic action against customers
Lifelong nuisance The central register of residents
People's Choice Wiener lines Because of "populist" surveillance policy with camera surveillance
Defensor Libertatis positive price European Parliament Rejection for the draft for the patentability of software and against the transfer of flight data to the USA

2006

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2006 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance SWIFT ,
represented by the Austrian SWIFT supervisory board member Günther Gall Raiffeisen Zentralbank 		Since 2001, Günther Gall, as a supervisory board member of SWIFT, has put his duty of confidentiality as a law-abiding citizen of Austria and hid the transfer of European and Austrian bank data to US authorities and secret services.
politics Interior Minister Liese Prokop ( ÖVP ) In the pre-election campaign, Interior Minister Liese Prokop (ÖVP) was primarily concerned with the publicly effective installation of police video surveillance systems at at least eleven locations throughout Austria and the procurement of automatic license plate readers for motorways ( raster search ).
Authorities and administration HAK Grazbachgasse Johann Janisch, IT manager of the UNESCO school HAK Grazbachgasse and responsible for the introduction of the edu.card, delights his students with the experience of a total linkability of access control, payment, copier, login and class book data.
communication Chris Hibbert (Walt Disney TV Int) Chris Hibbert and other content producers influence future technical standards and are particularly committed to introducing total rights control into the living room.
Lifelong nuisance Jörg Haider In disregard of the highest Austrian judicature and international treaties, Governor Jörg Haider denies minorities their well-earned rights.
Pro-stupiditate Brigitte Ederer Since Brigitte Ederer is no longer a politician, but instead propagated biometric population control as head of Siemens Austria , she has lost the term “responsibility” - the jury found the stupidest excuse.
Popular election SWIFT The SWIFT affair left the strongest impression on the audience . Günther Gall and SWIFT received almost twice as many votes as the surveillance attacks of the ÖBB and the UNIQA GPS car insurance.
Defensor Libertatis positive award Hans Zeger The chairman of ARGE Daten has been addressing data protection in Austria since 1983 .

2007

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2007 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Heinrich Frey, taxi guild For spying on your own employees and passengers and the associated violation of fundamental personal rights.
politics Claudia Schmied , Minister of Education (price suspended) Schmied was selected to create an educational documentation file that documents school successes and “social abnormalities”. The prize in this category was not awarded this year, however, as Schmied announced possible changes in the law immediately before the award, which must be awaited. The price is kept on record and can also be handed over at a later date.
Authorities and administration Peter van der Arend , KPN For unlimited raster searches in telephone networks within the framework of ETSI standards
Communication & Marketing Anthony E. Zuiker , author of CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators For the evasion of civil rights as an entertainment program
Lifelong nuisance Hans Dichand , editor of the Kronen Zeitung For a life as a manipulator of the republic (Dichand stands for campaign journalism and uses the reach of his daily newspaper to create moods.)
Defensor Libertatis positive award Karl Korinek , President of the Constitutional Court For the warnings of a total surveillance state.

2008

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2008 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Bruno Wallnöfer, TIWAG For years of trying to silence the publicist Markus Wilhelm by all means.
politics Günter Kößl and Rudolf Parnigoni For the amendment to the Security Police Act , which allows the police to access cell phone location data and IP addresses without judicial control.
Authorities and administration Daniela Strassl , Wiener Wohnen For affixing a barcode with a hidden customer number to 220,000 questionnaires while ensuring anonymity.
Communication & Marketing UPC Austria For the automatic redirection of websites to an American advertising provider.
Lifelong nuisance Austrian post For years of trading in data from your own customers.
Audience award Telekom Austria For the transfer of customer data to the porn industry.
Positive award "Defensor Libertatis" Meryem Marzouki As a cosmopolitan and doyen of civil rights in the information age.

2009

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2009 in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Clemens Steiner, managing director of Tiger Lacke Surveillance satisfaction
politics Upper Austrian state parliament members Gottfried Hirz , Maria Wageneder and Ulrike Schwarz Internet blocking populism
Authorities and administration Federal Ministry of Finance Indication of the social security number for donations
Communication and marketing Russell E. List-Perry, managing director of 123people.at dangerous arbitrariness in personal data
Audience award Peter Klugar , ÖBB Employee health records

2010

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2010 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Gudrun Höfner, managing director of ITworks Common data extraction from the long-term unemployed
politics Josef Pröll Transparency database
Authorities and administration Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office Extradition of journalists to German colleagues without a legal basis
Communication and marketing Magenta Telecom no reimbursement of costs for unsolicited value-added SMS sent
Audience award Claudia Bandion-Ortner Delaying criminal proceedings
Defensor Libertatis John Young Operation of the Cryptome.org site

2011

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2011 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Hannes Ametsreiter , Telekom Austria Opponent of net neutrality
politics Johanna Mikl-Leitner (Minister of the Interior, ÖVP ), Beatrix Karl (Minister of Justice, ÖVP ) Enforcement of increased police powers following the 2011 attacks in Norway
Authorities and administration Renate Christ, Head of the Social Department of the City of Vienna Disclosure of data from applicants for minimum income and a. to landlords
Communication and marketing Wolfgang Fellner , free newspaper Austria Media execution and violation of the presumption of innocence of an 80-year-old who was in custody for a short time
Audience award Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter-Terrorism u. a. illegal use of the federal Trojan , observation of animal rights activists and student representatives
Defensor Libertatis Maximilian Schrems Operation of the Europe vs. Facebook
Special price for a "lifelong nuisance" Mark Zuckerberg , Facebook founder Dealing with data protection

2012

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2012 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Frank Wartenberg, IMS Health The complete analysis and marketing of the transparent patient
politics Johann Maier (politician, May 1952) , Chairman of the Data Protection Council Servant of two masters with human needs
Authorities and administration National Council President Mag. Barbara Prammer Austrian parliament server veined petition signatories
Communication and marketing Kurt Schügerl, Digilight Werbe- und Netzwerk GmbH Wild Wild West - profiles on the info screen of the ÖBB train stations
Global hunger for data (new since 2012) Larry Page , Google Inc. Google - one account for all platforms
Audience award Electronic health record (Austria)
Defensor Libertatis Jacob Appelbaum in place of all developers of Tor
Special price for a "lifelong nuisance" Network locks in all their variations for the lobbyists who do not and do not want to stop and profit

2013

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2013 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna . This year's motto “Yes we scan” was pointedly based on Barack Obama's popular campaign slogan ( Yes We Can ).

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Steve Ballmer , Microsoft "With the voice and gesture control of the Xbox One, total surveillance virtually comes into the living room."
politics Werner Faymann , Federal Chancellor "Where in other countries there is at least outrage about the extent of the worldwide internet surveillance by the US secret service NSA uncovered by Edward Snowden , in Austria there is simply consistently silence."
Authorities and administration Beatrix Karl as a member of the federal government She is awarded for the technically completely unsuitable attempt to set up an official whistleblower platform.
Communication and marketing Mark Shuttleworth , Ubuntu founder "... for the integration of Amazon.com search results into the desktop"
Global hunger for data (new since 2012) Hamadoun Touré, ITU , specialized agency of the United Nations This has drawn up a set of rules which, with the official standardization of sniffing methods such as “Deep Packet Inspection”, undermines the principles of the UN Human Rights Charter on a technical level.
Special price for a "lifelong nuisance" National Security Agency (NSA) It monitors worldwide communication - from the telephone network to internet traffic - to an extent that even with harsh critics sometimes triggered one or two surprises.

2014

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2014 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna . The motto was No Power Spies

category receiver Reason
Business and finance University of Salzburg 18,000 university students have to use Google services
politics Siim Kallas and Neelie Kroes , EU commissioners EU-wide surveillance infrastructure with the automatic emergency call system ECall
Authorities and administration Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek as a member of the federal government BIFIE data leak and dubious studies
Communication and marketing LG Electronics Automatic data transfer from smart TVs to the manufacturer
Global hunger for data (new since 2012) Facebook Psychological experiments with its members
Special price for a "lifelong nuisance" ELGA Participation of NSA- related subsidiary in ELGA

2015

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2015 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Uniqa Insurance Group Uniqa Safeline, for travel profile-dependent insurance tariffs
politics Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner for the State Protection Act
Authorities and administration Linz AG for the mandatory switch to smart meters
Communication and marketing Mattel for children's toys that record the player via microphone and make the recording available to parents
Global hunger for data Facebook for the patent, which is supposed to make credit scoring via the user's friends possible
"Lifetime Award" Social Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer Representing nominations in the past few years in the social sector, for example for access by the Public Employment Service to information on the citizenship of its customers

2016

The award ceremony took place under the motto The Silence of the Lemmings on October 25, 2016 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna . ESeL was hosted by Lorenz Seidler. Show performances came from the band Rammelhof .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance BMW Austria GmbH BMW ConnectedDrive for comprehensive storage of usage behavior
politics Justice Minister Wolfgang Brandstetter for the ever-growing desire for a state Trojan
Authorities and administration Reinhard Posch, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the federal government for the mobile phone signature, which is not considered to be entirely secure
Communication and marketing Young Enterprises Media GmbH for the Schoolfox app, which is intended to replace the newsletter and offers personalized advertising
Worldwide hunger for data Google for the standard non-encrypted communication of the new messenger Google Allo and the reading of the messages
People's Choice - the people's choice Federal Trojan which should be sent on patrol in the darknet

2017

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2017 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Graz baker Martin Auer for setting up a branch in which only cashless payment transactions are possible
politics Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka for his catalog of demands for new monitoring measures
Authorities and administration World Wide Web Consortium for the introduction of the DRM system Encrypted Media Extensions EME as a web standard
Communication and marketing Facebook for filtering according to target groups for advertisers according to hundreds of criteria and the possibility of dark posts / unpublished posts
Worldwide hunger for data Amazon Echo

2018

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2018 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Medtronic for a firmware vulnerability in cardiac pacemakers known for over 1.5 years without an update
politics Axel Voss for an EU draft law that includes upload filters and ancillary copyright law
Authorities and administration Municipal Department 67 (parking space management) for electronic parking stickers and the associated movement profile for all cars parked in public spaces
Communication and marketing Bayer Austria and Philip Morris International for their plans to use face scanners to target audiences in pharmacies and tobacconists
Worldwide hunger for data Facebook for incidents ranging from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal to inadvertently displayed data from 14 million users

2019

The award ceremony took place on October 25, 2019 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna .

category receiver Reason
Business and finance Austrian post for the algorithm with which the party affinity was calculated
politics Federal Government Brief I for the real names duty and SIM -Registration
Authorities and administration Weiden am See seaside resort for palm vein recognition for annual ticket holders
Communication and marketing Jo Bonus Club
Worldwide hunger for data Microsoft for listening to Skype calls

Switzerland

2000

The award ceremony took place on October 26, 2000 in the Rote Fabrik in Zurich .

category receiver Reason
Country VBS Espionage project SATOS 3
Business Hoffmann-La Roche Compulsory urine tests of their apprentices
communication Swisscom Location tracking from Natels
Life's work Urs von Däniken Long-standing chief service for analyzes and prevention at the Federal Police .
Winkelried (positive price) Mister F. He refused to compile illegal lists of Iraqis during the Gulf War and was fired as wages.

2001

The award ceremony took place on October 26, 2001 in the club room of the Rote Fabrik in Zurich .

category receiver Reason
Country Conference of the Cantonal Police Commanders Efforts to network their data systems
Business Swica health insurance Computer program for absence management
communication Military intelligence Onyx satellite listening system
Life's work - This year the jury was unable to give a Lifetime Achievement Award for particularly persistent sniffing.
Winkelried (positive price) Michael Jordi, VPOD union Unnamed
employee of a call center 		They resisted workplace surveillance

2002

The award ceremony took place on October 29, 2002 in the Casinotheater Winterthur in Winterthur .

category receiver Reason
Country Zurich Canton Police Database «Joufara II»
Business Q-SYS company, St. Gallen Data collection with Rai / Rug
communication Adrien De Werra, Head of DBA (Service for Special Tasks) Adjustments to the surveillance law
Life's work Club de Berne The organization, founded in 1971, includes heads of intelligence from 19 states who exchange data outside of any political control.
Winkelried (positive price) Bert Setzer (pseudonym) 4Q card

2003

The award ceremony took place on November 1st, 2003 in the attic of the riding hall in Bern .

category receiver Reason
Country Samuel Schmid , Federal Councilor VBS Survey of recruits upon recruitment
Business Orange Communications , St. Gallen Fich employees
communication Examining magistrate Jean Treccani, Lausanne Cell phone dragnet
Life's work Hans-Ulrich Helfer, Presdok AG, Zurich A tireless "cold warrior" when it comes to spying .
Winkelried (positive price) Annina Rust
Salomé Rebekka Zollinger
Daniel Costantino 		SuperVillainizer conspiracy generator
Uncovering the secret database when the Winterthur
publication of recruitment questionnaires

2004

The award ceremony took place on October 16, 2004 in the Steeltec hall in Emmenbrücke .

category receiver Reason
Country Corps Commander Hansruedi Fehrlin , Air Force Use of unmanned surveillance drones
Business santésuisse - Association of Health Insurers in Switzerland Implementation of the new tariff system Tarmed
Workplace City Police Zurich Secretly monitoring employee email traffic
Life's work Josef Leu ( CVP ), National Councilor Used for years in parliament for more surveillance
Winkelried (positive price) Daniele Jenni , lawyer Among other things, a lawsuit against the Bündner Kantonspolizei, which fiched demonstrators .

2005

The award ceremony took place on October 29, 2005 in the Rote Fabrik in Zurich .

category receiver Reason
Country Municipality of Emmen Social inspector
Business PostFinance Data transfer to the USA
Workplace Federal Prosecutor Roschacher Trash sniffing
Life's work Juerg Scherrer Commitment to video surveillance
Audience award (positive award) augenauf Zurich, Basel and Bern Prepaid mobile phone promotion

2006

The award ceremony took place on November 16, 2006 in the Sudhaus cultural center in Basel .

category receiver Reason
Country Federal Council as a whole , represented by Federal Councilor Blocher , FDJP Revision of BWIS-II "Federal Act on Measures to Safeguard Internal Security"
Business CSS health insurance Access to sensitive patient data
Workplace Media-Markt Dietikon Video surveillance employees
Life's work Hans Wegmüller, director of the SND military intelligence service
Audience award (positive award) Referendum Committee BWIS

2007

The award ceremony took place on November 9, 2007 in the Palace in St. Gallen .

category receiver Reason
Country Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher Template for BWIS-II - revision "Federal law on measures to safeguard internal security"
Business Helsana health insurance company Lack of data protection during controls ("health controlling")
Workplace SBB and Federal Office of Transport (FOT): Drug tests without suspicion on employees
Life's work Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher BWIS "Federal Act on Measures to Safeguard Internal Security"
Audience award (positive award) Thomas "BloggingTom" Brühwiler

2008

The award ceremony took place on October 18, 2008 in the Tojo Theater in Bern .

category receiver Reason
Country Section 9 of the Basel Public Prosecutor's Office Funding of large councils
Business Securitas , Investigation Services Department Spy on critical groups
Workplace CSS health insurance Absence control
Life's work Kurt Trolliet, State Security Officer , KaPo Bern Preventive arrest of journalists
Audience award (positive award) Alliance Lucerne for everyone Resistance to video surveillance and rayon bans

2009

The award ceremony took place on October 24, 2009 in the Rote Fabrik in Zurich .

category receiver Reason
Country Federal Department of Justice and Police , ÜPF service - monitoring of postal and telecommunications traffic For complete real-time monitoring of Internet traffic
Business Swisscom Because of access to customers' routers
Workplace Vocational Training School Winterthur , Erich Stutz (Rector) Because of calling on residents of the school to denounce alleged drug use or environmental pollution
Life's work Deltavista (from 2013 CRIF) Representing the commercial collection of data
Audience award (positive award) Student Union CUAE For the resistance against the foreign police control of foreign students

2010 to 2018

The BBA was not organized in Switzerland for 10 years due to a lack of resources .

2019

Another award was planned for 2019. This took place on August 29th at the University of Zurich .

category receiver Reason
Country Canton Zurich Surveillance state
Public-private partnership Federal Office of Public Health Electronic patient record
audience PostFinance Voice recognition

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Big Brother Awards  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: BigBrotherAwards  - in the news

Individual evidence

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