StopWatchingUs

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StopWatchingUs is a loose and decentralized alliance of several organizations and parties, which works against the surveillance of society. The trigger for the foundation and the individual groups and their rapid networking were the publications of the global surveillance and espionage affair by Edward Snowden . There are now independent groups in several major German cities that organize regional events.

origin

The first trigger for identification with the name "StopWatchingUs" (often also "#StopWatchingUs", as an echo of the Internet service Twitter , via which citizen movements increasingly inform each other) was a campaign launched by the Mozilla Foundation . Various regional organizations and parties joined this.

history

#StopWatchingUs demonstration on August 31, 2013 in Cologne
Volker Beck speaks on October 26, 2013 at the rally in Cologne

On Saturday, July 27, 2013, there were demonstrations in 39 German cities at the same time, in which several thousand people took part. An alliance of various organizations and parties called for this under the name #StopWatchingUs . Even if initially only the date was coordinated nationwide, the various groups made very similar demands.

On the International Day of Privacy (IDP) on August 31st, Anonymous and #StopWatchingUs again called for demonstrations and protests. This time only 27 cities officially took part in the call. In terms of content, but also in terms of appearance, there were now much greater overlaps nationwide.

On October 26, 2013, rallies and demonstrations against the increasing surveillance of society and the lifting of the presumption of innocence took place in Hanover, Heidelberg, Cologne, Leipzig, Lübeck, Michelstadt and Munich .

On December 10, 2013, a call was issued from around 560 writers from around the world, including five Nobel Prize winners for literature. As part of StopWatchingUs, you are protesting against the systematic surveillance of the Internet by secret services with an international appeal. The authors call for democracy to be defended in the digital world. The signatories include Umberto Eco , Tom Stoppard , Paul Auster , Jonathan Littell , JM Coetzee , Elfriede Jelinek , TC Boyle and Peter Sloterdijk . They demand that every citizen must have the right to have a say in the extent to which their data is collected, stored and evaluated. They emphasize the presumption of innocence as a central achievement of civilization and appeal to the United Nations to pass an “International Convention of Digital Rights”.

On July 26, 2014, rallies and demonstrations took place again to mark the one year anniversary of the alliance. Some rallies were held in front of secret service locations. A demonstration train started from Bad Aibling to the Bad Aibling station in Mietraching. In Griesheim a rally took place in front of the Dagger Complex and in Cologne the rally was held in front of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Web links

Commons : Stop Watching Us  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stopwatching.us: Stop Watching Us . In: stopwatching.us . Retrieved October 22, 2013.
  2. ^ Theresa Breuer, Ole Reissmann: Demonstrations against Prism: Thousands call for a stop to the spying . In: Spiegel Online . July 27, 2013. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Florian Wächter: Germany-wide protests against PRISM and TEMPORA . In: Demonstrare.de . July 5, 2013. Archived from the original on August 18, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Florian Wächter: StopWatchingUs - International Day of Privacy (IDP) . In: Demonstrare.de . July 30, 2013. Archived from the original on September 25, 2013. Retrieved on October 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ Dates - #StopWatchingUs. In: stopwatchingus.info. #StopWatchingUs, archived from the original on October 22, 2013 ; Retrieved November 26, 2014 .
  6. ↑ faz.net : The writer's call. December 10, 2013, accessed December 10, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Florian Wächter: Demonstrations against surveillance - nationwide day of action . In: Demonstrare.de . March 6, 2014. Archived from the original on August 17, 2014. Retrieved on August 17, 2014.
  8. ↑ Heiner Effern: Protest against the eavesdroppers. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 26, 2014, accessed on February 23, 2017 .