[bestbits] Stingray Surveillance

[Steve Anderson]

Thanks to everyone who helped crowdsource the start of a list of examples
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B8HO8SSJrqJbmytsehStt-U3sw9KyLzHsehl9f81rDw/edit>
where authorities have used Stingray cell phone surveillance technologies
(aka "IMSI-catchers").

We hope to continue to build this resource and find a way to display it
more effectively. *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. If you're interested please sign on here.
<https://docs.google.com/a/openmedia.ca/forms/d/1MqAYIpwQOBIT66l1_DighPjdXg3uS_WYTFloFBVPQWc/edit>*

Thanks to those who have signed on already! Privacy International, Open
Rights Group, BoingBoing, FreePress, Fight For The Future, BCCLA, BC FIPA,
Pivot Legal, CJFE, the Privacy International, Open Rights Group, Centre for
Free Expression, CIPPIC, The Nation.

I pasted draft petition text my signature below if you're interested in
some details.

We're looking to get as many groups as possible by March 21st. If you're
interested in joining us, please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/a/openmedia.ca/forms/d/1MqAYIpwQOBIT66l1_DighPjdXg3uS_WYTFloFBVPQWc/edit

Please share this invite with your networks as well.

Thanks so much and hope you can join us!
--
*Steve Anderson*
Founder, Senior Strategist and Internet Governance Analyst
OpenMedia.org | *The Internet Needs You -->>* http://openmedia.org

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Draft petition text
(If you have concerns about the language or contents, please let us know)

We are calling on law-makers to create new safeguards protecting innocent
civilians from invasive cell phone surveillance from Stingrays (or
IMSI-catchers).

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.

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.

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.
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