aktivix and other tech collectives statement on 11 Oct 08

As part of a Day of Action Freedom not Fear, radical tech collectives from Europe and beyond have come up with the following statement which summarises what their position on privacy rights is.

We want to stop Data Retention of the type that is being imposed on us by the E.U. Directive 2006/24/EC because it is a preemptive surveillance of communication structures:

Imagine the postal services kept a record of everyone who sent a mail to you. When. Who. How. Where. This is exactly what is happening no with your email, your phone calls and other electronic communications.

We as providers are forced to store YOUR communication metadata this is forcing us to work as outsourced police forces. We don't want this. We will pour as much sand into this machine of suspicion as we possibly can. And we encourage everyone else to do the same! Do not support this attack on privacy!

We will continue to fight against Data Retention in any way possible and we will support each other in our different efforts to fight it.

signed:

aktivix.org
all2all.be
alterezo.be
blacksec.org
blogxpopuli.org
boum.org
Brasil Indymedia Tech Collective
cassiopea.org
crackedwillow.net
domainepublic.net
effraie.org
espace4you.org
free.de
globenet.org
hacklab.dk
herbesfolles.org
immerda.ch
koumbit.org
lautre.net
linefeed.org
marsupi.mine.nu
moviments.net
mutins.net
nadir.org
no-log.org
nodo50.org
open-web.fr
poivron.org
puscii.nl
rezo.net
riseup.net
samizdat.net
so36.net
squat.net
systemausfall.org
systemli.org
tachanka.org

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