Big Brother Awards
The Big Brother Awards recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy". They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. They are awarded yearly to authorities, companies, organisations, and persons that have been acting particularly and consistently to threaten or violate people's privacy, or disclosed people's personal data to third parties.
The awards are intended to draw public attention to privacy issues and related alarming trends in society, especially in data privacy. The contest is organized by a nongovernmental organization Iuridicum remedium.
The German Big Brother Awards are organised and hosted by digitalcourage (formerly FoeBuD) in Bielefeld.
Countries
The following countries have their own version of the Big Brother Awards:
- Big Brother Awards (Austria)
- Big Brother Awards (Belgium)
- Big Brother Awards (Bulgaria)
- Big Brother Awards (Czech Republic)
- Big Brother Awards (Denmark)
- Big Brother Awards (Finland)
- Big Brother Awards (France)
- Big Brother Awards (Germany)
- Big Brother Awards (Hungary)
- Big Brother Awards (Italy)
- Big Brother Awards (Japan) (2003)
- Big Brother Awards (Netherlands)
- Big Brother Awards (New Zealand)
- Big Brother Awards (Spain)
- Big Brother Awards (Switzerland)
- Big Brother Awards (United Kingdom)
- Big Brother Awards (United States)