Strong encryption is a critical technology that helps keep people, their information, and communications private and secure. It underpins online trust, protects members of vulnerable communities, and safeguards the data of governments, businesses, and citizens from criminals and other malicious actors. However, some governments and organizations are pushing to weaken encryption, which would create a […]
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Kyoto Statement on End-To-End Encryption
On the occasion of the 2023 Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum is a multi-stakeholder forum that gathers governments, industry, civil society, the technical community, to discuss the most pressing issues related to internet governance. The Global Encryption Coalition was present at the Global Internet Governance Forum in Japan. Members hosted workshops and discussions […]
Global Encryption Day-Poster Presentations
On account of Global Encryption Day, ISOC India Chennai Chapter will organize a Poster Presentation Event in which the participants can come out with their expertise on Encryption and Security Process. They can project their ideas in image format that best describes what they wanted to communicate with their peers and spice it up with […]
Join DigitalMedusa to discuss encrypting Internet infrastructure. Internet architecture and infrastructure produce data that go unencrypted.
The Center for Democracy & Technology, Global Partners Digital, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Internet Society, and Mozilla, constituting the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition, issued the following statement regarding the passage of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill. On 19 September 2023, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Bill, a critically […]
The Center for Democracy & Technology, Global Partners Digital, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Internet Society, and Mozilla, constituting the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition, issued the following statement regarding recent adoptions of end-to-end encryption by default: Last week, Meta announced that it will be turning on end-to-end encryption by default for Messenger […]
Global Encryption Day 2023
We will join efforts worldwide to protect end-to-end encryption and defeat any proposals that try to undermine it.
On 6 June, academic and civil society organizations from all over the globe make urgent plea to the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil: Protect fundamental rights by acknowledging encryption’s critical value in protecting privacy and freedom of expression, especially for vulnerable groups. The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil is set to resume the trial for […]
On 20 April, over 40 organizations and cybersecurity experts, including members of the Global Encryption Coalition, released a joint statement calling on the Turkish government not to undermine end-to-end encryption. Please see the joint statement below in English and Turkish. As Turkey faces threats to its security and economy, the reliance of Turkey’s residents, businesses, […]
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee — the Center for Democracy & Technology, Internet Society, Global Partners Digital, Mozilla Corp. and the Internet Freedom Foundation — issued the following statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption on April 5, 2023: Among the troubling strategies of those who are threatening the right to […]