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<html>
<head>
<title>Stand: Defining Digital Freedoms In The UK</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="The Stand weblog." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Stand, weblog, blog" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="/weblog/syndication/index.xml" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/weblog/includes/style/global.css" type="text/css" />
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@import url(/weblog/includes/style/global_non_ns4.css);
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<body link="#006611" alink="#006611 vlink="#996633">
<div id="top">
<div id="masthead">stand</div>
<div id="controls">
<span class="control"><a href="/">home</a></span>
<span class="control"><a href="weblog/about/">about</a></span>
<span class="control"><a href="mailto:[email protected]">email</a></span>
<br>
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<div class="titletomski">Who Are You Lot, And Why Are You Doing This?</div>
<div id="page-body">
<div id="main">
Stand.org.uk is a group of volunteers who
<A HREF="http://www.stand.org.uk/faq.php3">originally came together in
1998</A> in a vain attempt to fix the worst aspects of the
<A HREF="http://www.stand.org.uk/press.php3">Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act</A>.
Backed up by a list
of over 3000 supporters, we disseminate information and motivate
the interested about issues around privacy and censorship, particularly
with respect to the Internet.</p>
<p>Having succeeded in motivating people to educate their MPs about some
of the more ill-informed parts of RIP — and, unfortunately, been
less successful with others — we lay dormant for a while. You might say we sulked.
<P>
Well, not quite. We decided to reuse the web-based Fax-An-MP engine we'd built for the RIP campaign
and allow anyone to use it to contact their MP on any issue they saw fit.
Hence <A HREF="http://www.faxyourmp.com/">FaxYourMP.com</A> was born.
It's now on its way to sending its 50,000 fax to MPs. We look forward to the day when
we can turn it off.
<p>Earlier this summer, a large slice of luck helped us pull off a minor coup,
when we relaunched our
site a matter of hours before news broke of <a
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2062418.stm">the Home Office's attempt to create a 'Snoopers Charter'</a>.
<P>
Thanks to
our supporters, their friends and some good luck, we were very pleased
that we helped kick up a media storm that brought the issue to the
attention of many sympathetic MPs and, allegedly, one Hugh Blunkett,
Esq.
The Home Office swiftly dropped its proposals to extend RIP; the day was won and we got to feel
really good about having helped make a difference.</p>
<p>So, having sat around feeling rather too smug for six months,
we felt it was about time to
alert people to the flaws in this ID card consultation. So here we
are…</p>
<P>
<p>If you'd like to be informed when the site has a new feature (or, when we
get up to speed, a regular digest of changes), send a blank mail to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, and we'll stick you on a mailing
list. And if you'd like to help out, or have any suggestions, you can mail us directly at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
<p>You can find the old STAND homepage <a
href="/index.20020610.php3">here</a>.</p>
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