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Big Brother Awards 2018 Italy
The 2018 Italian edition of the Big Brother Awards was held in Bologna on 8 June 2018, with the support of a grant from the European Digital Rights Fund. The award ceremony took place during the 23rd edition of the E-privacy conference.
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BBA Germany 2018: Spying on employees, refugees, citizens…
The annual German Big Brother Awards gala was held by EDRi member Digitalcourage in Bielefeld on 20 April 2018.
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Bavarians protest against vastly extended police powers
A large anti-surveillance rally took place in Munich on 10 May 2018. 30 000 protesters showed their dismay about the Bavarian plans to reform the law on the tasks of the state’s police. Even the organisers were surprised by the scale of the demonstration – they had expected fewer than 10 000 people.
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Big Brother Awards – tips and materials for organisers
In October 2018, we will celebrate 20th anniversary of the first Big Brother Awards (BBA) event in UK.
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Czech BBA for Ministry of Industry and Trade for data retention
The winners of the 13th edition of the Czech Big Brother Awards were announced on 15 February 2018 in Prague.
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ENDitorial: Living as if being at an airport
The internet is starting to look more and more like an airport. Not only because of the ubiquitous surveillance, but also in the way that advertising is trying to steal our attention. Should we start working on a right to not be addressed?
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Dutch mass surveillance law receives two BBA nominations
Until 9 November 2017 people in the Netherlands could nominate individuals, organisations and companies for a Big Brother Award. The three most “popular” nominees are now in the running to become the biggest privacy offender of the year. Two of the three nominees, Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) parliamentary party leader Sybrand Buma and the Cabinet, […]
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Europe’s governments win the Big Brother Awards 2017 for opening the pandora’s box of surveillance
On Friday 13 October, the annual Belgian Big Brother Awards – a negative prize for the worst privacy abuser of the year – took place in Brussels. The jury awarded the European trend of state hacking, European Digital Right’s (EDRi) nomination, the title of the ultimate privacy villain. The public voted Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) […]
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BBA Germany 2017: Espionage, threats, tracking, provoking cyber wars
The annual German Big Brother Awards were bestowed by EDRi member Digitalcourage on 5 May 2017 in Bielefeld, Germany. The event drew much media attention, as one of the awardees threatened the organiser with legal action. The awardees are informed of their awards a few days in advance and invited to respond or appear at the […]
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Dutch BBA 2016: Facial recognition, medical data and safe messaging
An anonymous country singer, the watchdog-walking service and the I-have-nothing-to-hide musical. These were just a few elements thrown in by theatre producers and performers Oscar Kocken and Daan Windhorst. Just add a crash course “Lying with charts”, a few tasteful awards, and you have an awards ceremony – simultaneously funny and serious – about privacy. […]
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EDRi invites you to the Big Brother Awards Belgium
On 6 October, the Belgian Big Brother Awards – a negative prize for the worst privacy abuser – will take place in Brussels. There are many other such award ceremonies around the globe, many of which are being organised by EDRi’s members. EDRi is proud to be one of the partners of the Belgian event, […]
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Finnish Big Brother Award goes to intrusive loyalty card programme
On 2 September, EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) presented the 2016 Big Brother Awards. The Awards are given to individuals or organisations who have during the past year remarkably undermined citizens’ privacy and data protection. The goal is to draw attention to violations of privacy.
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