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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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 […]
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 […]
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,1 raise grave concerns with the impact that the Article 8 ter of the legislation “Sortir la France du piège du narcotrafic,” will have on the security and privacy […]
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 […]
Dear Ministers, 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, write to express our concerns with the 9 September Hungarian Presidency compromise texts on the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation. During the Belgian Presidency, the Global Encryption […]
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee — the Center for Democracy & Technology, Internet Society, Global Partners Digital, Mozilla Corp. and the Internet Freedom Foundation — issued the following statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption on April 5, 2023: Among the troubling strategies of those who are threatening the right to […]