Some of the other nominees:

• The FCC for adopting net neutrality rules that ITIF says will limit broadband innovation

• People who seek to ban autonomous killer robots

• States that have put limits on the use by law enforcement of automatic license plate readers

• Jerry Brown for vetoing RFID tags in Driver's Licenses

• States that limited the use of red light traffic cameras

Here is their document listing all the nominees and explaining why each is nominated: http://www2.itif.org/2015-itif-luddite-award.pdf