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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. Not only that but Slashdot contributed by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Atleast one person (me) found out about the issue right here on slashdot as well as the Fax webpage. I was one of the hundreds that used this mechanism. I received a very nice letter from my MP thanking me for my interest and noting that the legislation had been voted down (actually he was quite happy about it, as he's in opposition).

    Wow- real democracy! And in the semi-police state of the UK. Who'd have thought?

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    -WolfWithoutAClause

    "Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"
  2. 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