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Stop Digital Strip Searches in airports

As supporters of the Madrid Declaration, we are calling on national governments to suspend the deployment of body scanners until a full evaluation of the technology is completed. As the Declaration states, we:

"Call for a moratorium on the development or implementation of new systems of mass surveillance, including facial recognition, whole body imaging, biometric identifiers, and embedded RFID tags, subject to a full and transparent evaluation by independent authorities and democratic debate;"

The Madrid Declaration is a substantial document that reaffirms international instruments for privacy protection, identifies new challenges, and recommends specific actions.

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Recommended Actions:

JOIN - Facebook Group: Stop Airport Strip Searches
http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=179598280013&ref=mf

ENDORSE - Privacy Coalition: Sign the Petition to the US Congress
http://privacycoalition.org/stopwholebodyimaging/

ENDORSE: Madrid Privacy Declaration
http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/

SIGN - International Boycott of Body Scanners (IBBS)
http://www.petitiononline.com/IBBS/petition.html

SIGN - UK Petition to abandon the proposed rollout of airport body scanners.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AirportScanners/

POST - Stop Digital Strip Searches image
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Reference materials:

Madrid Privacy Declaration
http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/

EPIC, Whole Body Imaging Technology
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/

EPIC, Spotlight on Surveillance
http://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0605/

Privacy International, "statement on proposed deployments of body
scanners in airports"
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-565802

TSA, Imaging Technology
http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/imaging_technology.shtm

Michael Chertoff ("Former homeland security chief argues for whole-body imaging")
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101746.html

 
 

Events

CALENDAR FOR CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORKING

This is a listing of events which may be useful for civil society to participate, connect and network on issues relating to information and communication technologies and policies.

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Past Events

The Public Voice Conference:
"Privacy Rights are a Global Challenge"

The Public Voice
Punta del Este
Uruguay
October 22, 2012

The Public Voice Civil Society Meeting: "Next Generation Privacy Challenges and Opportunities"

Lillie Coney, Chair
EPIC Associate Director

The Public Voice
Jerusalem
October 25, 2010

Madrid - Spain. The Public Voice: Global Privacy Standards in a Global World
November 3, 2009

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Sharm El Sheikh - Egypt. United Nations. IV Internet Governance Forum November 15-18, 2009

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OECD 2008 Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy

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Civil Society Privacy Conference
Montreal
Sept. 25, 2007

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OECD Participative Web Forum
Ottawa
Oct. 3, 2007

Past Public Voice Events

Cape Town Conference »

Wroclaw Conference »

Buenos Aires Conference »

Participation in the World Summit on the Information Society Internet Governance Caucus »

Civil Society Background Paper


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