Overview - The Stupid Security Awards

21/08/2006

The Stupid Security Awards is an open competition run by Privacy International to discover the world’s most pointless, intrusive, annoying and self-serving security measures. The awards aim to highlight the absurdities of the security industry.

The awards were first staged in 2003 and attracted over 5,000 nominations. The primary conclusion of this exercise is that unworkable security laws and illusory security measures do nothing to help issues of real public concern. They only hinder the public and intrude unnecessary into our private lives.

The competition is judged by an international panel of well-known security experts, public policy specialists, privacy advocates and journalists. They judge on

Most Egregiously Stupid Award

Most Inexplicably Stupid Award

Most Annoyingly Stupid Award

Most Flagrantly Intrusive Award

Most Stupidly Counter Productive Award

Unworkable security practices and illusory security measures do nothing to help issues of real public concern. They only hinder the public, intrude unnecessary into our private lives and often reduce us to the status of cattle.

Related:
Stupid Security Awards Home Page
Stupid Security Contest 2003 Winners Announced
The Stupid Security Competition 2003
Stupid Security Contest 2003 Most Egregious Security Measures Nominees
Stupid Security Contest 2003 Most Inexplicable Measure Nominees
Stupid Security Contest 2003 Most Counter Productive Security Nominees
Stupid Security Contest 2003 Most Intrusive Measures Nominees
Stupid Security Contest 2003 Most Intrusive Security Measures Nominees
Stupid Security Contest 2003 Award Winners