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quintessenz campaigns 1994-2001
Promoting civil liberties and digital freedom on the internet

 
 
1998

From November 1998 to March 1999
Publication of the surveillance plans created by the joint European Union Police working group, the first of the so-called ENFOPOL papers, ENFOPOL 98, in fulltext for Telepolis E-Zine.

October 1998
All existing files of quintessenz e-zine are transferred to the FTP-archives of the Austrian National Bibliotheque. quintessenz was the first major web-only product that has been archived there.

September 1998
quintessenz was represented at "The Outlook for Freedom, Privacy and Civil Society on the Internet in Central and Eastern Europe Conference Budapest, Hungary" sponsored by GILC and the Open Society Institute.

July 1998
Joining the Global Internet Liberty Campaign protests against a telecommunications law in Spain containing mandatory key recovery.

June to December 1998
Together with Electronic Frontiers Australia quintessenz coordinated the worldwide GILC-icrypto campaign for the abolition of crypto export restrictions in the so-called Wassenaar Arrangement.

April 1998
Newsletter q/depesche starts circulation and has been delievered near-on daily since then.

 

   
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