I truly believe our industry needs to elevate our own anti-awards, like others have (Razzies, Worst Game of the Year, etc.) to shame those responsible for building the regressive tech that corporations and governments push.

There's already the Big Brother Awards [0] and EFF's smattering of Worst Government and Worst Data Breach articles each year. [1]

But I think we need more.

Personally I would love to nominate:

- Mark Stefik and Brad Cox for their contributions to DRM

- Erick Lavoie for his work on Wildvine DRM

- Vern Paxson for his contributions to DPI (Deep Packet Inspection)

- Latanya Sweeney and Alexandre de Montjoye for their contributions to re-identification of anonymized data

- Steven J. Murdoch and George Danezis for their work on de-anonymization attacks

[0]http://www.bigbrotherawards.org/

[1]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/breachies-2025-worst-w...