Privacy International announces “Stupid Security Awards”

April 15, 2003 - Privacy News

The purpose of the awards is to highlight “the pointless, annoying, intrusive, illusory and just plain stupid measures to "protect" our security”.

Categories include “Most Inexplicable Security Measures”, “Most Intrusive Security Measures”, “Most Counter Productive Security”, “Most Annoying Security Measures”, and “Most Egregious Security” Measures”. For example, runner-up “Heathrow Airport for quarantining a quantity of green tea”. Others include Universal Studios, the University of Texas at Austin, San Francisco General Hospital, and many others. For a complete listing:

More information is available at <http://www.privacyinternational.org/activities/stupidsecurity/>.

Last updated April 15, 2003