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/
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/AR200912...