<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">(please, feel free to copy paste and re-post).</div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p>--------------------</p><p><br></p><p>Stop Digital Strip Search in airports!</p><p><a href="http://thepublicvoice.org/2010/01/stop-digital-strip-search-in-airports.php">http://thepublicvoice.org/2010/01/stop-digital-strip-search-in-airports.php</a></p><p><br></p><p>As supporters of the <a href="http://www.thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration">Madrid Declaration</a>, 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:</p><p> "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;"</p><p>The <a href="http://www.thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration">Madrid Privacy Declaration</a> is a substantial document that reaffirms international instruments for privacy protection, identifies new challenges, and recommends specific actions.</p><p><strong>Recommended Actions:</strong></p><p>JOIN - Facebook Group: Stop Airport Strip Searches<br> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=179598280013&ref=mf">http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=179598280013&ref=mf</a></p><p> ENDORSE - Privacy Coalition: Sign the Petition to the US Congress<br> <a href="http://privacycoalition.org/stopwholebodyimaging/">http://privacycoalition.org/stopwholebodyimaging/</a></p><p>ENDORSE: Madrid Privacy Declaration <br> <a href="http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/">http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/</a></p><p> SIGN - International Boycott of Body Scanners (IBBS)<br> <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/IBBS/petition.html"> http://www.petitiononline.com/IBBS/petition.html</a></p><p> SIGN - UK Petition to abandon the proposed rollout of airport body scanners.<br> <a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AirportScanners/"> http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AirportScanners/</a></p><p>POST - Stop Digital Strip Searches image<br> <a href="http://imperialkingdom.net/images/graphics/nakedmachine.jpg">http://imperialkingdom.net/images/graphics/nakedmachine.jpg </a> </p><p><br> <strong>Reference materials:</strong></p><p> Madrid Privacy Declaration<br> <a href="http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/">http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/</a></p><p> EPIC, Whole Body Imaging Technology <br> <a href="http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/"> http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/</a></p><p> EPIC, Spotlight on Surveillance<br> <a href="http://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0605/"> http://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0605/</a></p><p> Privacy International, "statement on proposed deployments of body <br> scanners in airports"<br> <a href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-565802"> http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-565802</a></p><p> TSA, Imaging Technology<br> <a href="http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/imaging_technology.shtm"> http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/imaging_technology.shtm</a></p><p> Michael Chertoff ("Former homeland security chief argues for whole-body imaging")<br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101746.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101746.html</a></p></div><br></div></body></html>