The Australian government is currently considering draft online safety standards that threaten to undermine the use of end-to-end encryption, putting security and privacy of Internet users at greater risk. The eSafety Commissioner has proposed two draft industry standards under the Online Safety Act. Both draft standards include a range of proactive detection obligations on digital […]
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Global Encryption Day 2023 Statement
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Global Encryption Coalition (GEC) is proud to announce that Mozilla Corporation (Mozilla) and the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) are joining the Coalition’s Steering Committee, alongside the three founding members – the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), Global Partners Digital (GPD), and the Internet Society (ISOC). This expansion of the Coalition’s Steering Committee comes as […]
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Encryption: a tool to defend women’s rights
It does not matter who is in power, if it’s left, if it’s right, if we are in 1950 or 2023, you must remain vigilant throughout your life, a quote from Simone de Beauvoir remains ever contemporary to women all over the world. It relates to the fact that women’s rights have been consistently put in jeopardy […]
On 24 November, seventy civil society organizations, companies, elected officials, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an open letter to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighting their concerns with the threat that the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill poses to end-to-end encryption. Dear Prime Minister Sunak, With cyber attacks becoming ever-more frequent […]