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How A UK Fax Campaign Helped Preserve Privacy

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-a-few-shreds-of-it dept.

Neil Watson writes: "An interesting story on how some computer users created a website to enable citizens to fax their federal representative (MP) to comment on a controversial privacy bill." And it's encouraging, since they actually got the Home Office to blink.

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  1. EFF Action Center by X86Daddy · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is hopeful news for us in The States: EFF has set up an Action Center that operates the same way, allowing us to Fax our congress-critters

  2. In what sense is an MP a "federal representative"? by DHam · · Score: 2, Informative

    As alledgedly well educated people like the editors should be aware, the UK has a unitary form of government. There is no federal government in the UK and hence no federal representatives!