Stop1984

The founder of Stop1984 started the project in 2001 as NGO which is documented in the
community of .
The project was discontinued in early 2008.
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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 of privacy
the political, social and individual consequences of increasing surveillance
the dangers of political disinterest

The political objectives are:

publishing formerly unpublished numbers regarding the success oder failure of surveillance
that data privacy and the right of informational self-determination find a place in the Basic Constitutional Law in Germany and in European Law

Of 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

Activities of Stop1984

Every month Stop1984 published a magazine in German that could be downloaded, "Lasst mich in Ruhe".
The satirical story about the German state with the title was published there as well. Stop1984 also signed a of Privacy International.
Every day, Stop1984 sent a German summary of news regarding privacy, data privacy, press freedom and similar via email to its subscribers.