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Freedom, Not Fear day 2009

Thu, Aug 13 2009 17:00 CET

byRene Beekman

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Freedom, Not Fear day 2009

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Freedom Not Fear – Stop the surveillance-mania is the slogan under which Non-Governmental Organisations around the world organise street protests on September 12 2009.

Protest will range from demonstrations to parties and artistic actions, international organisers said.

The protests are aimed against "mass surveillance and centralised data retention programmes," organisers said.

According to organisers, the "surveillance measures included preemptive retention of communication, profiling movements, tax and financial transactions, interpersonal relationships, individual behaviour and medical records and much more."

Although measures were generally introduced as anti-terrorism or anti-organised crime measures, they did not target specific people, but indiscriminately collected data on the entire population, organisers said.

In Bulgaria, protests will be organised by the Bulgarian NGO Електронна Граница (Electronic Frontier), which also organised protests in 2008, a media statement from the NGO said.

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