The protests against the Census educacenso 1983 (and 1987) | silent concert
The following is an excerpt from my historical science master thesis entitled "Origins and Evolution of the Chaos Computer Club in the 1980s" (PDF | ePub). Further excerpts educacenso follow in the coming weeks. All previously published parts can be found here.
At an event on the topic of personnel information systems in December 1982 in Hamburg, an avalanche was unleashed, which is considered one of the greatest educacenso protest and boycott of the Federal Republic of the 1980s: the mass resistance to the 1983 planned and finally in 1987 by guided educacenso census. 1
Still under the social-liberal coalition represented by all parties in the Bundestag educacenso in the spring of 1982, a law was passed a national, professional, labor and housing census. The law provided to deliver questionnaires between educacenso 18 and 27 April 1983, using 600,000 meters every household in the Federal Republic and to collect them filled again until May 7. The questionnaires contained 36 questions about the apartment, the people living in the household and their workplaces, another questionnaire required disclosure of the name, address and telephone number. educacenso 2 Although the census was planned in principle only for statistical purposes and the data should therefore be collected anonymously, attracted the survey mistrust among the population. 3
The biggest concern was that with the help of computers easily a de-anonymization of data records is possible, 4 and that the records therefore misused by government authorities and used by the BKA or constitutional protection to complete their databases. 5 In the census, the fears, educacenso the impotence of citizens towards the equipped with computers and data information and monitoring state would totally.
Even before the event in Hamburg plans to census educacenso had been reviewed critically. educacenso In September 1982, members of the established "International War Resisters 'a' initiative educacenso census boycott". The occasion was less fear of the Census, rather than the idea of using the census as leverage against the state. Under the slogan "Politicians questions - answers citizens not!" educacenso Should be forced on the boycott of the census of the State to disclose "his" educacenso personal data - the secret locations of the planned deployment of cruise missiles. educacenso 6
Although joined educacenso the call to other groups, the event in Hamburg can only be regarded as the true starting point of the mass movement. Following a verbal piece on HR information systems at the University of Fine Arts, the census issue was raised as one of the women present had received a request educacenso by mail, to stand as Zählerin available. That same evening founded there a popular initiative, 7 which dealt in the following educacenso weeks intensively educacenso with the planned census. In a leaflet the initiative educacenso wrote the end of January 1983,
"Census sounds harmless. Each one shepherd his flock. But times have changed. Long no longer wants to know only the number of his fellow citizens 'Father State'. With the help of modern computer technology every citizen should be totally covered and verdatet in his life context. "8
By combining the planned census with existing educacenso in society fears computer managed the Hamburg initiative, kicking off an avalanche. Alone in Hamburg were founded in February 1983 by a further 20 initiatives nationwide is for the same period of up to 300 initiatives mentioned, the end of March of 500. 9
With the rapid growth of the protest educacenso and the mainstream educacenso media discovered the issue. The taz since January 1983 reported critically about the census and printed address lists of initiatives, educacenso thus fulfilling an important role in the nationwide mobilization and networking of the boycott movement. Other media, especially DER SPIEGEL, discovered the issue and reported increasingly critical. 10 As a result of the planned census every citizen was directly affected by the census, the mobilization potential was high. Therefore, the protest reached out quickly over the already easy to be mobilized and committed to peace and anti-nuclear movement West German protest milieu. While many citizens' initiatives promoted an open boycott of the census, alternatively, a silent boycott propagandierten, ie adding any incorrect information educacenso or the results to be difficult due to kinked or soiled automated evaluation questionnaires, 11 put other opponents of the census in a legal proceeding.
One of the two H
The following is an excerpt from my historical science master thesis entitled "Origins and Evolution of the Chaos Computer Club in the 1980s" (PDF | ePub). Further excerpts educacenso follow in the coming weeks. All previously published parts can be found here.
At an event on the topic of personnel information systems in December 1982 in Hamburg, an avalanche was unleashed, which is considered one of the greatest educacenso protest and boycott of the Federal Republic of the 1980s: the mass resistance to the 1983 planned and finally in 1987 by guided educacenso census. 1
Still under the social-liberal coalition represented by all parties in the Bundestag educacenso in the spring of 1982, a law was passed a national, professional, labor and housing census. The law provided to deliver questionnaires between educacenso 18 and 27 April 1983, using 600,000 meters every household in the Federal Republic and to collect them filled again until May 7. The questionnaires contained 36 questions about the apartment, the people living in the household and their workplaces, another questionnaire required disclosure of the name, address and telephone number. educacenso 2 Although the census was planned in principle only for statistical purposes and the data should therefore be collected anonymously, attracted the survey mistrust among the population. 3
The biggest concern was that with the help of computers easily a de-anonymization of data records is possible, 4 and that the records therefore misused by government authorities and used by the BKA or constitutional protection to complete their databases. 5 In the census, the fears, educacenso the impotence of citizens towards the equipped with computers and data information and monitoring state would totally.
Even before the event in Hamburg plans to census educacenso had been reviewed critically. educacenso In September 1982, members of the established "International War Resisters 'a' initiative educacenso census boycott". The occasion was less fear of the Census, rather than the idea of using the census as leverage against the state. Under the slogan "Politicians questions - answers citizens not!" educacenso Should be forced on the boycott of the census of the State to disclose "his" educacenso personal data - the secret locations of the planned deployment of cruise missiles. educacenso 6
Although joined educacenso the call to other groups, the event in Hamburg can only be regarded as the true starting point of the mass movement. Following a verbal piece on HR information systems at the University of Fine Arts, the census issue was raised as one of the women present had received a request educacenso by mail, to stand as Zählerin available. That same evening founded there a popular initiative, 7 which dealt in the following educacenso weeks intensively educacenso with the planned census. In a leaflet the initiative educacenso wrote the end of January 1983,
"Census sounds harmless. Each one shepherd his flock. But times have changed. Long no longer wants to know only the number of his fellow citizens 'Father State'. With the help of modern computer technology every citizen should be totally covered and verdatet in his life context. "8
By combining the planned census with existing educacenso in society fears computer managed the Hamburg initiative, kicking off an avalanche. Alone in Hamburg were founded in February 1983 by a further 20 initiatives nationwide is for the same period of up to 300 initiatives mentioned, the end of March of 500. 9
With the rapid growth of the protest educacenso and the mainstream educacenso media discovered the issue. The taz since January 1983 reported critically about the census and printed address lists of initiatives, educacenso thus fulfilling an important role in the nationwide mobilization and networking of the boycott movement. Other media, especially DER SPIEGEL, discovered the issue and reported increasingly critical. 10 As a result of the planned census every citizen was directly affected by the census, the mobilization potential was high. Therefore, the protest reached out quickly over the already easy to be mobilized and committed to peace and anti-nuclear movement West German protest milieu. While many citizens' initiatives promoted an open boycott of the census, alternatively, a silent boycott propagandierten, ie adding any incorrect information educacenso or the results to be difficult due to kinked or soiled automated evaluation questionnaires, 11 put other opponents of the census in a legal proceeding.
One of the two H
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