Germany’s largest data Kraken: State Protection and BVG get “Big … – Tagesspiegel

The Protection of the Constitution has been awarded a negative rate for data leeches. The Privacy club Digitalcourage awarded the unloved “Big Brother Award” in the category Lifetime Achievement on Friday in Bielefeld to the domestic community service in Germany. The companies IBM, Generali Insurance, the campaign platform Chance.org and the Berlin public transport had to be “data octopus” put up with such an award.

The Bielefeld Team Digitalcourage use its own account for more than 25 years for the protection of fundamental rights in the digital age a. With the annually awarded “Big Brother Awards” will denounce violations of privacy and misuse of technology for excessive Datensammelei the data protection.

Given a 65-year history with many privacy and civil rights violations, it was surprising that the constitutional protection yet not have “Big Brother Award”, jury member Rolf Gössner said aloud pre-spread manuscript. The lawyer and publicist had been observed even for decades by the secret service. He denounced in particular the involvement of the secret service in the NSU scandal. “Despite – or you have to say because? – His numerous undercover agents in the environment of the NSU was the racist murders over the years neither prevented nor detected, “said Gössner

Even Generali and Change.org excellent

In the. Category consumer protection, the jury chose the Generali insurance as winners, because they promise their customers benefits when they can control their health data and their purchasing behavior by app. “This is no more than a marketing gimmick, where fitness bracelets consumers to monitor used” privacy activist Rena tangent said of Digitalcourage.

With another price the privacy advocates complained the electronic ticket of the BVG. In December 2015 had become visible over a data leak motion profiles of passengers. For the in-process software “social dashboard” of US IT company IBM was snubbed. About proprietary networks employee data should be collected to social behavior and evaluated.

The “Big Brother” award winner Change.org comes from the US. The company operates a campaign platform. Although these come as an alternative project, therefore, but earn real money with the data of signatories there set petitions. It also are numerous data protection shortcomings. (AP)