On 26 October 2001 the second German Big Brother Awards were presented at teh Ravensberger Spinnerei, Bielefeld. In 6 categories, the awards highlighted companies and individuals that abuse personal data or invade privacy.

Award categories and winners (links in German)

Main award "Politics": Otto Schily, Interior Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany for his "anti-terrorism package" against civil rights and privacy.

Business and Finance: The Consulting Corporation "Informa", for the invention and promotion of "scoring"-technologies.

Communication: Werner Müller, minister of economy and technology, for his "telecommunication surveillance act".

working world surveillance: The software company "ProtectCom", for privacy decreasing applications like "webSpy" and "e-Blaster".

Technics / Scene-Award: RealNetworks for the hidden gathering of personal data in their streaming media applications.

Regional Award: Hans-Ehrenberg-Gymnasium, a public (secondary) school in Bielefeld, for storing personal data like fingerprints on an electronic payment system called "school-card".

Letter of Support
Privacy International's founder Simon Davies on European BigBrotherAwards.

Press archive
The wide echo in the regional, national, and international media.

Credits
People, organisations and institutions without which the Big Brother Awards 2001 would have been impossible.