Context & Cringe Application Privacy Game
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🏆 Winner of our 2025 CyberSec Game Challenge, Context & Cringe is a fast-paced card game about application privacy, awkwardness, and real human impact that helps teams understand why privacy decisions matter.
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Context & Cringe Application Privacy Game
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Components
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SuitsApp, Feature, Data
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About the game
Players build product scenarios using three card types: App, Feature, and Data, aiming to minimise their own “cringe” while sabotaging others with awkward or amusing combinations. The game sparks laughter, debate, and meaningful discussion about privacy expectations and user trust.
Designed for developers, product managers, architects, security teams and privacy champions, it works equally well as a workshop activity, training tool, icebreaker, or team-building exercise. Rounds are quick, easy to facilitate, and highly replayable.
How to play?
Everyone has two cards of each type. Three card types, plenty of combinations.
- Combine or place cards to create an app (App + Feature + Data)
- Pitch your combination briefly to the group
- Players vote “comfy” or “cringe” for each scenario
- Your aim: To get the lowest cringe score!
The real game isn’t winning. It’s that moment when someone realises they wouldn’t actually be comfortable with it.
About Kim & Avi
Kim Wuyts and Avi Douglen are leading voices in privacy engineering and application security, combining deep expertise with a refreshing sense of play. Active across the privacy and OWASP communities, they’re known for turning serious topics into practical learning experiences. Together, they are the creators of the Context & Cringe privacy card game proving that learning about privacy can be engaging, memorable, and even fun.
