How much data is held about you by government? Who can get hold of it? What else do they want to know about? And what do we need to do to stop it?

There are a growing number of large government databases. You’re on them. You probably don’t know who might look at that information, how safe the data is or if the databases themselves might contravene your rights.

That’s why Open Rights Group has launched a new spoof Statebook tries to show, based on the JRRT / FIPR Database State report.

Above all though, we want you to act: the next big project, Intercept Modernisation (IMP), will be on the cards in the next few months, will further threaten your rights. IMP is about amassing even more of your communications data, and making it easier to access and analyse– possibly by placing the data in one enormous state database of your email traffic, phone calls, VIP and Facebook messages.

The tide is turning on civil liberties: across the political spectrum, people have had enough. Clause 152 showed enormous public concern, and the government backed down. Visit the site, and take a first step to stop more snooping on the internet by emailing your MP.

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1. Liberal Conspiracy

   New post: Statebook: because knowledge is power http://tinyurl.com/cmjht2

2. Libby Miller

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3. Patrick Hadfield

   RT @OnModernLiberty: Jim Killock of the ORG on Statebook, a spoof site showing what data the government holds on you http://is.gd/smSR

4. Paul Ayres

   RT @onmodernliberty Jim Killock of ORG introduces Statebook a new spoof site showing what data the government holds on you http://is.gd/smSR

5. Brian L Johnson

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6. Dennis North

   RT @OnModernLiberty: Jim Killock: ORG introduces Statebook, a new spoof site showing what data the government holds on you http://is.gd/smSR

7. Liberal Conspiracy

   New post: Statebook: because knowledge is power http://tinyurl.com/cmjht2

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8. S Smith

   Statebook: because knowledge is power (Jim Killock)
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9. Libby Miller

   liking statebook – spoof site satirising how much govenment could know about you http://tinyurl.com/cmjht2 (via @onmodernliberty)

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10. Patrick Hadfield

    RT @OnModernLiberty: Jim Killock of the ORG on Statebook, a spoof site showing what data the government holds on you http://is.gd/smSR

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11. Paul Ayres

    RT @onmodernliberty Jim Killock of ORG introduces Statebook a new spoof site showing what data the government holds on you http://is.gd/smSR

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12. Brian L Johnson

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13. Dennis North

    RT @OnModernLiberty: Jim Killock: ORG introduces Statebook, a new spoof site showing what data the government holds on you http://is.gd/smSR

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