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Global Encryption Day is an annual day of action when advocates, champions, and everyday people come together to celebrate, promote, and defend encryption, a key resource that enables a safe online experience.

Participate in one of numerous events held worldwide, join the Global Encryption Day Summit, or experience what a world without encryption could look like, playing Unencrypted — The Game: A game we’d never want to play for real.”

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Encryption safeguards the personal security of billions of people and the national security of countries around the world.

The Global Encryption Coalition (GEC) was founded in 2020 by the Center for Democracy & Technology, Global Partners Digital and the Internet Society and now has over 350 members.

Its mission is to promote and defend encryption in key countries and multilateral fora where it is under threat. The GEC also supports efforts by companies to offer encrypted services to their users.

Latest News

Global Encryption Coalition Welcomes Growing Adoption of End-to-end Encryption by Default

01 July 2026

The Center for Democracy & Technology, Global Partners Digital, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Internet Society, and Mozilla, constituting the …

GEC Steering Committee Response to UK DSIT Consultation on Age-Based Restrictions

11 June 2026

On 26 May, the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC-SC) submitted a response to the UK Department for …

Open Letter on Bill C-22, An act respecting lawful access

28 April 2026

On 28 April 2026, civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an open letter …

Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee Statement on Meta’s Removal of End-to-End Encryption from Instagram Direct Messages

08 April 2026

The Center for Democracy & Technology, Global Partners Digital, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Internet Society, and Mozilla, constituting the …

Global Encryption Day Summit 2025: A Shield in Uncertain Times

06 January 2026

On October 21-22, 2025, the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition was proud to host the third edition of …

GEC Steering Committee Statement on Council of the EU Position on the European CSA Regulation

05 January 2026

12 December 2025 The Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe, Global Partners Digital, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Internet Society, …

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What did people and organizations tell us about their choice to use and implement strong encryption?

Wire is the enterprise-class platform for secure, uncompromising digital collaboration. We partner with Government, Defense, and Public Sector agencies that prioritize security and confidentiality above all else. We also serve enterprise organizations that want to deliver digitally transformed employee and customer communications, while maintaining data protection, privacy, and compliance. Digital …

Wire

At Echoworx, encryption is in our DNA. For over 20 years, we’ve been committed to digital privacy, ensuring your sensitive communications are secure worldwide. Our mission is close to our hearts because we know encryption safeguards real people. A leading enterprise in insurance, wealth, and retirement depends on our platform …

Echoworx

At HexaEight, we are proud to offer a revolutionary platform that leverages our patent-pending end-to-end encryption technology to redefine user authentication and content protection. Our commitment to security is reflected in every aspect of our products, from safeguarding personal data during authentication to ensuring the authenticity and integrity of digital …

HexaEight

SecureCrypt features industry leading security features and strong, E2EE to secure global voice and data communications. Immune to electronic interception, electronic eavesdropping, and brute-force attack attempts. All data is fully end-to-end encrypted at all times, both at-rest and in-transit, along with all metadata being encrypted. Owning our own infrastructure means …

SecureCrypt

Nowadays, censorship and cybersecurity issues are on the rise. Owing to the centralized nature of big tech platforms, every message sent by users is stored on their central cloud servers. This centralization turns user data into an enticing resource for powerful entitie and advertising firms. User data privacy and ownership …

WireMin

At Session we provide a safe, secure, and simple-to-use space for people to communicate with each other. Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that minimises sensitive metadata, designed to protect people’s privacy every time they have a conversation. We believe everyone should be able to say no — no to …

Session

As technology continues to advance, data privacy and security have become increasingly important. End-to-end encryption has become a popular solution for protecting data from prying eyes. It is a technique that encrypts messages or data in such a way that only the sender and receiver can read them, and nobody …

eighttoseven

Myntex Inc. is a private software development company building end-to-end encrypted mobile solutions. We manage our world-class custom data center onsite in our Canadian headquarters. Myntex believes everyone has the right to privacy and that E2EE is essential. Our flagship product, ChatMail™, uses tamper-proof hardware and the strongest encryption algorithms …

Myntex

Strong encryption systems (extending encryption) in the better protection of human rights, and the fact that the two aspects reinforce each other, hence creating a virtuous cycle. Encryption ensures that the data stored on computer systems, those on cloud computing such as Apple and Google, and those being transmitted through …

ISOC IGF Youth Ambassador

Privacy has always been essential for our team – it’s the core of all solutions we’ve built so far. Developing PrivMX Fusion, a compact digital workspace for internal business collaboration, we wanted to use the most reasonable technology that ensures privacy. End-to-end encryption makes it possible for our users to …

PrivMX

Since adopting end-to-end encryption in 2016, WhatsApp has secured more than 100 trillion private messages for over two billion users. We believe that people should have the ability to have a private digital conversation just as we can in person. We’re proud to advance and defend privacy and security that …

Let’s Encrypt started with a mission to get the Web to 100% encryption – we want everyone to be able to experience a more secure and privacy-respecting Web. Encryption also helps site operators to have assurance that their content is being delivered as intended. We’ve made great progress toward that …

Let’s Encrypt

At Proton we offer end-to-end encrypted products including email, calendar and VPNs. We believe people should have the right to decide for themselves who can access their personal data and that the best way for a company to protect user data is by not having it in the first place …

ProtonMail

People should be able to have access to a digital venue that they know that is provably private. We are proud to provide that venue with the @platform, an open source project that allows people, entities and things to converse using end to end encryption. The @platform SDK allows developers …

The @Company

Security and privacy are vitally important to Zoom users. Both free and paid users can opt to host end-to-end encrypted meetings within their accounts. Zoom E2EE meetings can accommodate up to 1,000 people! As a global leader for secure communications, we look forward to expanding our support for E2EE to …

Zoom

In 2013, Mega pioneered user-controlled end-to-end encryption through the web browser. Today, it provides the same zero-knowledge privacy and security for its cloud storage and chat applications, whether through a web browser, mobile app, desktop app or command line tool. Mega The Privacy Company provides Privacy by Design based on …

Mega

Our end-to-end encrypted cloud collaboration service helps thousands of teams protect the privacy of their most valuable data. Organizations of all shapes and sizes, from NGOs to education and research institutes, small-and medium sized businesses and larger corporations, rely on Tresorit’s end-to-end encrypted service to make sure that their files …

Tresorit

Tutanota is the secure email service that automatically protects all data with end-to-end encryption. In today’s internet, encryption is the best tool we have to protect our sensitive data from prying eyes. To fight for our right to privacy – to protect journalists, whistleblowers, human rights activists as well as …

Tutanota

At the Tor Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we build free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies to advance human rights and freedoms. Tor Browser relies on end-to-end encryption to provide users protection against tracking, surveillance, and censorship. We’re proud to help millions of people take back their right to …

Tor

Encryption keeps people safe and empowers people.

It is a strong layer of protection and an enabler of human rights.

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