The office of Births, Deaths and Marriages is currently 100% Victorian Government owned.  That means we all own it, as we should, because of the detailed personal data about our lives that we have stored there, but the Government is considering selling it off to the private sector.

The office is critical to all our lives as it records and manages the most intimate personal details of all Victorians.

A potential sale is bad news for Victorians for a number of reasons:

1. It will hand over the personal and private details of all Victorians to a private company with no guarantees on data protection. Just look at all the recent data breaches from formerly State Owned businesses.
2. It will allow the private company to jack up the cost of obtaining Certificates or registering information.
   
3. Our private information can potentially be sold to third parties for advertising as a way the buyer gets a return on the billions it spends to purchase BDM.
   

The purpose of our campaign is to generate community support to keep our private information fully in Government hands and to re-open BDM to the public.