Editing Stop1984

{{More footnotes|date=January 2020}}
The founder of '''Stop1984''' started the project in 2001 as [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]] which is documented in the
community of [http://www.heise.de Heise.de] (German link).
The project was discontinued in early 2008.
*[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)

== 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* publishing formerly unpublished numbers regarding the success oder failure of [[surveillance]]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 (http://www.datenschutzverein.de/ Website, German link)

== Activities of Stop1984 ==

Every month Stop1984 published a magazine in German that could be downloaded, "Lasst mich in Ruhe" (Don't bother me).
The satirical story about the German state with the title [http://217.172.182.26/old-cms/index.php?text=henry.txt "Henry läuft" (Henry runs)] (archived version) was published there as well. Stop1984 also signed a [http://217.172.182.26/old-cms/index.php?text=hello_20040910.txt statement] (archived) 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.

== See also ==

*[[Trusted Computing Platform Alliance|TCPA]]
*[[Chaos Computer Club]]
*[[ACLU]]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110530063252/http://217.172.182.26/ 217.172.182.26 - Reconstructed website of STOP1984 as of January 2007] by Corvus Corax (ex-webmaster)

[[Category:Internet governance advocacy groups]]
[[Category:Political organisations based in Germany]]