[governance] Stop Digital Strip Search in airports!

[Katitza Rodriguez]

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Stop Digital Strip Search in airports!

http://thepublicvoice.org/2010/01/stop-digital-strip-search-in-airports.php



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

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
http://imperialkingdom.net/images/graphics/nakedmachine.jpg


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


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