- Stop1984
The founder of Stop1984 started the project in
2001 as NGO which is documented in the community of [http://www.heise.de Heise.de] (German link).
* [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?list=1&forum_id=12217 Computer scientists disbelieve in lawfulness of the German decree of telecommunication control] (German link)
* [http://wiki25.parsimony.net/cgi-bin/wiki/program/db-view.cgi?wiki63036;28 Our own Wiki] (German link)Objectives of Stop1984
Stop1984 mostly tries to alert people with its
website on:* the value of the own
privacy
* the value of the own data
* the risks of data abuse
* the consequences of the loss ofprivacy
* the political, social and individual consequences of increasingsurveillance
* the dangers of political disinterestThe political objectives are:
* publishing formerly unpublished numbers regarding the success oder failure of
surveillance
* thatdata privacy and the right of informational self-determination find a place in the Basic Constitutional Law in Germany and in European LawOf course, this objectives can only be achieved by interested and committed people.
Supporters of Stop1984
Supporter of Stop1984 are:
*Richard Stallman
*Brad Templeton
* Jacob Levich
* Wolf-Dieter Roth
* German Union for Privacy (http://www.datenschutzverein.de/ Website, German link)Activities of Stop1984
Every month Stop1984 publishes a magazine in German, which can be downloaded at [https://stop1984.com/index.php?text=service.txt#stopmagazin "Lasst mich in Ruhe" (Don't bother me)] .The satirical story about the German state with the title [https://stop1984.com/index.php?text=henry.txt "Henry läuft" (Henry runs)] is published here as well. Stop1984 also signed a [https://stop1984.com/index.php?text=hello_20040910.txt statement] of
Privacy International .Every day, Stop1984 sends a German summary of news regardingprivacy ,data privacy ,press freedom and similar viaemail to its subscribers.This are just a few Activities in general and from2004 , read more at [https://stop1984.com/index.php?text=aktuelles.txt News] on theirhomepage .See also
*
TCPA
*Chaos Computer Club
*ACLU External links
* [https://stop1984.com/index.php?lang=en Stop1984 - Homepage]
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