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. 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. Thanks very much! Best, Robin PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Support the Madrid Privacy Declaration Civil society groups and privacy experts are urging countries around the world to safeguard privacy, a fundamental human right. Governments and corporations are gathering too much information on individuals, with too few protections. New systems of identification, tracking and surveillance threaten the rights of citizens and consumers. At the recent meeting of privacy officials in Madrid, a declaration was issued that reaffirmed basic privacy laws, identified new challenges, and recommended concrete actions. The Madrid Privacy Declaration is an important document that makes affirmative recommendations. Now the Madrid Privacy Declaration is open for signature to individuals around the world. And we need your support! Go to this page for information about how to endorse: http://www.thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/ To learn more about privacy and the recent civil society conference in Madrid: http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/madrid09/ IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]