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 (GEC), issued the following: On 18 May, Discord announced that all voice and video calls on its platform would now be end-to-end encrypted by default. Over 150 million […]
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On 26 May, the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC-SC) submitted a response to the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) consultation, Growing up in the online world. The GEC-SC expresses concern about the generalised enforcement of age-based restrictions across certain online services, and specifically about proposals to restrict access to […]
On 28 April 2026, civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an open letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canadian Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser P.C., M.P., urging the federal government to withdraw Bill C-22,An Act respecting […]
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, express our serious concern regarding Meta’s announcement that it will discontinue end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Instagram Direct Messages as of May 8, 2026. We call on Meta to […]
12 December 2025 The Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe1, Global Partners Digital2, the Internet Freedom Foundation3, the Internet Society4, and Mozilla5, constituting the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition, write to share our views on the newly agreed Council of the EU position on the EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR). We have […]
Ireland’s Minister for Justice stated that they wish to introduce domestic legislation that would give Irish police (An Garda Síochána) access to encrypted messaging services. As the minister has indicated a review of Ireland’s existing interception legislation, the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993, is under way, drafting of the new […]
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Open Letter: Bill C-2 Strong Borders Act
On 15 September 2025, civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an open letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canadian Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree urging the federal government to withdraw Bill C-2, An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada […]
2 September 2025 The Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe,[i] Global Partners Digital,[ii] the Internet Freedom Foundation,[iii] the Internet Society,[iv] and Mozilla,[v] constituting the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition, write to express our concerns with the 1 July Danish Presidency’s Compromise Text[vi] on the EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR). We have carefully […]
On June 18th, 2025, civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members issued a joint letter to the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. This joint letter expresses concerns over the India Income Tax Bill, 2025, which is currently under review by a Select Committee of the Lok Sabha […]
On 26 May 2025, 89 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published a joint letter to the European Commission, calling on them to address concerns around the impact that the European Internal Security Strategy (Protect EU) would have on end-to-end encryption. The Internal Security Strategy’s focus on encryption will harm […]