Thu, Apr 10, 2003
Privacy International Announces "Winners"
Privacy International just announced the results
of its competition to find the world's most pointless, intrusive
and egregious security measures. The competition, launched in
February, attracted almost 5,000 nominations from 35 countries.
While the air security sector dominated the competition,
nominations arose from almost all areas of private and public
sector activity. The winners include JFK Airport, T-Mobile (UK),
Michigan Correctional facilities and the Australian Government.
The "Stupid Security" award was judged by a distinguished
international panel of security and privacy experts and is intended
to highlight the absurdities of the security industry. Privacy
International's director, Simon Davies, said his group took the
initiative because of 'innumerable' security initiatives around the
world that had absolutely no genuine security benefit.
"The extraordinary number of nominations indicates that the
situation has become ridiculous" said Mr Davies. "Security has
become the smokescreen for incompetent and robotic managers the
world over".
'The situation has become more than an irritation to the public.
It has become an outright danger".
The "winners" include:
- Philadelphia International Airport for over-reaction to a
bottle of cologne
- Runner-Up - Heathrow Airport for quarantining a quantity
of green tea
- Delta Terminal at JFK Airport for forcing a nursing mother to
drink her own breast milk
- San Francisco International Airport for endangering the public
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A complete list of the winners is on the organization's
website.
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