Data Protection Media Prize 2020 awarded
"Smart Speaker - what do they see?"(Youtube link) In this 20-minute report, Svea Eckert conducts a self-experiment with her own Amazon Echo smart speaker and finds out that it can see much more than she thinks. Together with her STRG_F colleague Henning Wirtz, Svea Eckert goes on the trail of her own data.
In addition to this video entry, this year's winners of two special categories can look forward to prize money of 1500 euros each. In the article "Wie wir uns verraten/Auf Sendung" (" How we betray ourselves/on air") from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Hannes Munzinger and Felix Ebert describe how numerous apps, in a non-stopmonitoring of users, create a comprehensive profile without their knowledge, sell this data or use it for their own advertising purposes. An Instagram story about the dating app Lovoo from the " News-WG," a young political format of Bayerischer Rundfunk , won the award for " BestSocialMedia Contribution. The story reveals a vulnerability in the dating app Lovoo, which means that users' location data can be made public and very precise movement patterns can be created. Tobias Schießl, Max Osenstätter, Oliver Schnuck and Robert Schöffel were involved in this project.
Due to the pandemic, the winners received their trophies and prizes by mail this year. As last year, the "unboxing" is published as a digital award ceremony on www.datenschutzmedienpreis.de . The call for entries for DAME 2021 will be published in the summer. To the next award ceremony of the DAME 2021 on the BvD federation days 2022 the winners*innen of this year will be present then live.
The Data Protection Media Award (DAME) is a project of the BvD's non-profit limited liability company, "privacy4people", and has been funded by the DATEV Foundation Future since November 2018. The media partner is the EU initiative klicksafe. The annual DAME was initiated in 2017 by the Professional Association of Data Protection Officers in Germany (BvD) e.V. and honors media professionals and creative people who explain the important topic of data protection in a clear and understandable way. A total of 49 submissions in the form of videos, radio, songs, print articles, documentaries or social media channels set a new record for applicants this year.
Jury DAME 2020
- Birgit Kimmel, Head of EU initiative klicksafe, National Awareness Centre Germany, Media Authority Rhineland-Palatinate
- Stefanie Rack, Pedagogical Officer EU-Initiative klicksafe, National Awareness Centre Germany, Media Authority Rhineland-Palatinate
- Frederick Richter, Chairman of the Data Protection Foundation
- Thomas Spaeing, Chairman of the Board of the BvD
- Dr. Sebastian Sprenger, Speaker of the DATEV Foundation Future
- Barbara Thiel, State Commissioner for Data Protection of Lower Saxony
- Marion Zinkeler, Director of Verbraucherzentrale Bayern
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