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<div>Consumer and individual rights to privacy face significant challenges in an online environment. The Madrid Privacy Declaration attempts to safeguard privacy rights -- and is now open for signature to individuals around the world! Quite a few NCUC members have already supported this privacy declaration and now we need support to go viral and global.</div><div><br></div><div>If you support the Madrid Privacy Declaration also, please forward (and post) the below Call to Action through your own individual networks and environments. Help us to bring more supporters to the statement that reaffirms privacy as a fundamental human right in the Internet-age.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks very much!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Support the Madrid Privacy Declaration</font></div><br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 43, 200); min-height: 14px; ">Civil society groups and privacy experts are urging countries around</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">the world to safeguard privacy, a fundamental human right.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">Governments and corporations are gathering too much information on</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">individuals, with too few protections. New systems of</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">identification, tracking and surveillance threaten the rights of</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">citizens and consumers.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 43, 200); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">At the recent meeting of privacy officials in Madrid, a declaration</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">was issued that reaffirmed basic privacy laws, identified new</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">challenges, and recommended concrete actions. The Madrid Privacy</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">Declaration is an important document that makes affirmative</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">recommendations.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 43, 200); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">Now the Madrid Privacy Declaration is open for signature to</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">individuals around the world. And we need your support!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">Go to this page for information about how to endorse:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 43, 200); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/"><u>http://www.thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 43, 200); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">To learn more about privacy and the recent civil society conference</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8">in Madrid:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 43, 200); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bc8" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bc8"><a href="http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/madrid09/">http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/madrid09/</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002BC8"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002BC8"><br></font></div></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>