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Big Brother Awards
Privacy defenders win Felipe Rodriquez Awards
Every year since 2002 the Big Brother Awards are handed out by Bits of Freedom. There is also a positive price to win: the Felipe Rodriquez Award. This year there are three winners. What they all have in common is defending our privacy and internet freedom. Congratulations to BOOS, Bert Hubert, and The Rights Forum, Plant en Olijfboom and Pax.
The National Police and the Dutch Tax Administration win the twentieth edition of the Big Brother Awards
We announced the biggest violators of our digital rights in 2025 at the Big Brother Awards. Of the five nominees, the winners are… The National Police (public prize) and the Dutch Tax Administration (expert prize)!
Nani Jansen Reventlow receives the Felipe Rodriguez Award 2021
Nani Jansen Reventlow specializes in strategic litigation in which she engages intersectionally with human rights and social justice. As a seasoned human rights lawyer, she has won a number of landmark court cases in the area of freedom of expression.
Recap of the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2016: serious and funny
An anonymous country singer, the watchdog-walking service and the I-have-nothing-to-hide musical. These were just a few ingredients 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 a very funny and serious ceremony about privacy. Check out the video.
Open Whisper Systems at the Dutch Big Brother Awards
Open Whisper Systems was awarded the Felipe Rodriguez award at the twelfth edition of Dutch Big Brother Awards. This award, given to people and organisations who have been invaluable for protecting and advancing privacy, was given to Open Whisper Systems for their work on Signal and the Signal protocol. They have managed to secure the […]
Minister Plasterk and National Police Force winners Dutch Big Brother Awards 2015
The winners of the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2015 are minister of the Interior Ronald Plasterk, and the chief of the National Police Force. The minister won for proposing the most far reaching surveillance law Dutch secret services have ever had, while at the same time refusing to listen to feedback and criticism to that […]