About 60 Groups Call on World's Governments to Support Encryption
Nearly five-dozen organizations from around the world Monday penned a letter urging governments to protect encryption as a foundation of the digital economy. The governments should support encryption as a "vital enabler of digital trust and economic prosperity."
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“Strong encryption is essential to the global digital economy” as it “safeguards user privacy, protects sensitive data, and enables trust, which are foundations of commerce, communication, and innovation,” the letter said.
Though the groups recognize “the legitimate needs of law enforcement and national security agencies to access evidence and combat crime,” they said, “these goals must be pursued through lawful, proportionate, and technologically sound means that do not compromise the safety and privacy of billions.”
Signers include the Software and Information Industry Association, Center for Democracy and Technology, TechFreedom and the Computer and Communications Industry Association.
Members of Congress and tech companies have raised concerns about enforcers in countries like the U.K. seeking backdoor access into Americans’ encrypted devices (see 2506050051 and 2508190013). Privacy lawyers have also called for protection, not weakening of, encryption (see 2504070063).