<div dir="ltr"><div id=":1xa" class="" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div id=":8ew" class="" style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to everyone who helped crowdsource the start of <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B8HO8SSJrqJbmytsehStt-U3sw9KyLzHsehl9f81rDw/edit" target="_blank">a list of examples</a> where authorities have used </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.664px">Stingray cell phone surveillance technologies (aka "IMSI-catchers"). </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.664px">We hope to continue to build this resource and find a way to display it more effectively. </span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">

<b>I'm writing to see if you're interested in signing on to a new international public campaign OpenMedia is building to Stop Stingray Surveillance.  <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/openmedia.ca/forms/d/1MqAYIpwQOBIT66l1_DighPjdXg3uS_WYTFloFBVPQWc/edit" target="_blank">If you're interested please sign on here. </a></b></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">Thanks to those who have signed on already! </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.664px;white-space:pre-wrap">Privacy International, Open Rights Group, BoingBoing, FreePress, Fight For The Future,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12.8px;background-color:transparent"> BCCLA, BC FIPA, Pivot Legal, CJFE, the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.664px;white-space:pre-wrap">Privacy International, Open Rights Group, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Centre for Free Expression, CIPPIC, The Nation.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I pasted draft petition text my signature below if you're interested in some details. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="line-height:1.38;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We're looking to get as many groups as possible by March 21st.  If you're interested in joining us, please sign up here: </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17.94px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/openmedia.ca/forms/d/1MqAYIpwQOBIT66l1_DighPjdXg3uS_WYTFloFBVPQWc/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/a/openmedia.ca/forms/d/1MqAYIpwQOBIT66l1_DighPjdXg3uS_WYTFloFBVPQWc/edit</a></span></p></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt">Please share this invite with your networks as well. </p></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Thanks so much and hope you can join us! </span><br></font></p></span><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div>--</div><div><b>Steve Anderson</b><br>Founder, Senior Strategist and Internet Governance Analyst</div><div>OpenMedia.org | <i style="text-align:-webkit-auto;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The Internet Needs You -->></i><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><a href="http://openmedia.org/" target="_blank" style="text-align:-webkit-auto">http://openmedia.org</a></div></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/Steve_Media" target="_blank" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Follow me on Twitter</a><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"></span><br><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Draft petition text </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">(If you have concerns about the language or contents, please let us know)</span></p><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We are calling on law-makers to create new safeguards protecting innocent civilians from invasive cell phone surveillance from Stingrays (or IMSI-catchers). </span></p><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Law enforcement agencies around the world are increasingly accessing Stingray technologies to engage in invasive and irresponsible surveillance of the most intimate personal information found on our cell phones – without our knowledge. We need strong, genuinely transparent, and properly enforced protections to secure privacy rights in an age of ubiquitous mobile phone technology.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The use of Stingrays should comply with the (Necessary and Proportionate) International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance, and respect our reasonable expectation of privacy, as protected under Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">While rules will differ between international jurisdictions, one thing must remain consistent: Stingrays should be a measure of last resort used only in the most extreme of circumstances or dire of emergencies, and citizens’ privacy rights must be considered and respected at all times.</span></p></div></font></span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="" id=":34k" style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-style:normal"><br></div></font></span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div>
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