(C) Freedom House This story was originally published by Freedom House and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Joint Statement - Global Encryption Day 2023 [1] [] Date: 2023-10 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 dangerous precedent that compromises the security and privacy of billions of people around the world. Actions in one country that undermine encryption threaten us all. On Global Encryption Day, we call on governments and the private sector to reject efforts to undermine encryption and instead pursue policies that enhance, strengthen, and promote use of strong encryption to protect people everywhere. We also support and encourage the efforts of companies to protect their customers by deploying strong encryption on their services and on their platforms. Strong encryption is a critical tool toward a safer world for us all. Signatories AccessNow Advocacy for Principled Action in Government Africa Media and Information Technology Initiative (AfriMITI) African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) Alianza por el Cifrado en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (AC-LAC) American Civil Liberties Union AMINA AP2SI – Associação Portuguesa para a Promoção da Segurança da Informação Apple Inc. Arenberg Crypto Association for Progressive Communications – APC Association for Proper Internet Governance Baltic Internet Policy Initiative Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) BewustSecure Big Brother Watch Blacknight Canadian Civil Liberties Association Center for Democracy and Technology CCAOI Centro de Autonomía Digital (CAD) Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI) Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East & Southern Africa (CIPESA) Comisión para la Colaboración del Desarrollo de Internet en las IES Committee to Protect Journalists comun.al, Digital Resilience Lab Community NetHUBs Africa Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) D3 – Defesa dos Direitos Digitais Defending Rights & Dissent Derechos Digitales DeSec Diamond Alternative Legal Services Digispace Africa Digital Empowerment Foundation Digital Rights Watch Digital Women Uganda dmarcian DNS Africa Media and Communications Echoworx eco – Association of the Internet Industry E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) Electric Coin Company Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Frontiers Australia, Inc ENCRYPT UGANDA Encryption Advocates Council Encryption Europe Escola Profissional de Campanhã ESOP – Associação de Empresas de Software Open Source Portuguesas Fight For the Future Freedom House Freedom of the Press Foundation Free Ebook Foundation Free Tech Institute Function X Foundation Fundación Cibervoluntarios Fundación Karisma Global Partners Digital Global Voices GoldBug.sf.net Crypto Messenger for E-Mail & Chat House of Africa Human Rights Journalists Network IDDLAC IFEX Ikigai Innovation Initiative Indic Project INFO-CARE – Consultoria, Lda. Information for All Innovation Solution Lab INSM Network Institute for Internet and the Just Society Instituto Beta: Internet & Democracia – IBIDEM Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade – IRIS Instituto Liberdade Digital Instituto Nacional para el Desarrollo de la Ciberseguridad International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group International Press Institute (IPI) Internet Australia Internet Freedom Foundation Internet Governance Project Internet Society Internet Society Belgium Chapter Internet Society Botswana Chapter Internet Society Brazil Chapter Internet Society Cameroon Chapter Internet Society (Canada) Manitoba Chapter Internet Society Catalonia Chapter Internet Society Chad Chapter Internet Society Colombia Chapter Internet Society Congo Chapter Internet Society Cote d’Ivoire Chapter Internet Society Dominican Republic Chapter Internet Society Ecuador Chapter Internet Society El Salvador Chapter Internet Society Ethiopia Chapter Internet Society Ghana Chapter Internet Society Guatemala Chapter Internet Society Haiti Chapter Internet Society Hong Kong Chapter Internet Society India Chennai Chapter Internet Society India Hyderabad Chapter Internet Society Japan Chapter Internet Society Kenya Chapter Internet Society Kolkata Chapter Internet Society Liberia Chapter Internet Society Madagascar Chapter Internet Society Mali Chapter Internet Society Namibia Chapter Internet Society (US) New York Chapter Internet Society Nicaragua Chapter Internet Society Nigeria Chapter Internet Society Norway Chapter Internet Society Palestine Chapter Internet Society Philippines Chapter Internet Society Portugal Chapter Internet Society Puerto Rico Chapter Internet Society Rwanda Chapter Internet Society Senegal Chapter Internet Society Singapore Chapter Internet Society Somalia Chapter Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter Internet Society Trinidad and Tobago Chapter Internet Society UK England Chapter Internet Society Uruguay Chapter Internet Society Yemen Chapter Internet Society Zimbabwe Chapter Internet Users Forever iki.fi society Interpeer Project IPANDETEC Central America JCA-NET Jokkolabs Banjul Keexle Kijiji Yeetu Law and Technology Research Institute of Recife – IP.rec LAYLO LGBT Technology Partnership Lusófona University Mailfence MEGA The Privacy Company Media Alliance Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) Media Rights Agenda (MRA) Meta MindIT Mnemonic Nameshop NetReach Foundation New America’s Open Technology Institute New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties Nitrokey GmbH Numex NUTS Technologies Nym Technologies Oakland Privacy ONG Acción Constitucional OpenMedia Open Governance Network for Europe OPTF Paradigm Initiative PEN America Pirate Party Switzerland -Piratenpartei Schweiz Post Graduate Department of Computer Science & IT, DAV College Amritsar, Punjab Praxonomy Privacy & Access Council of Canada Privacy International Prostasia Foundation Proteus Technologies Limited Proton Public Knowledge Pundi X Labs Quantum Leap Development Ranking Digital Rights Reform Government Surveillance Relaycorp Restore The Fourth SeeZam S.A. SecNet Cameroon SFLC.in Superbloom Stiftung Neue Verantwortung e. V. Surfshark Ltd. Swathanthra malayalam Computing Tech for Good Asia Tech Hive Advisory TechHerNG The Dialogue The Tor Project Tresorit TunnelBear Tutanota Ubunteam Uribe100.com Venchamax Company V. I. Okonkwo & Company Webfala Digital Skills for all Initiative West Africa ICT Action Network Women4Cyber Portugal World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform Youth Forum for Social Justice [END] --- [1] Url: https://freedomhouse.org/article/joint-statement-global-encryption-day-2023 Published and (C) by Freedom House Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/freedomhouse/