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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
On 8 April 2025, 237 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published a joint letter to members of the Swedish Riksdag calling on them to reject legislation that would force companies to undermine the encryption of their services. In doing so, the Swedish Riksdag would leave its citizens and […]
On 13 February 2025, 109 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published a joint letter to the British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper calling on the UK Home Office to rescind its demand that Apple create a backdoor into its end-to-end encrypted services. The letter, published and sent to the […]
On 29 September, 107 organizations and individual cybersecurity experts, including many members of the Global Encryption Coalition, wrote an open letter to the Belgian Ministers with responsibilities for digital and law enforcement issues. The Open letter calls on the Belgian government to drop law enforcement access requirements in the Draft law on the collection and storage of identification, […]
The Global Encryption Coalition wrote an open letter to Apple, calling on the company to abandon its recently announced plans to build surveillance capabilities into iPhones, iPads and other Apple products. On August 5, 2021, Apple announced that it will be installing surveillance software that will conduct on-device scanning in Messages and photos. As the coalition’s […]
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