Tag: Crypto

This week Access Now joined the open letter by the Center for Democracy & Technology to urge Facebook to continue to increase end-to-end security across its messaging services, in the face of government efforts to weaken it and hurt the human rights of countless users.

Access Now and Digital Rights Watch call on Facebook to resist “Five Eyes” government over-reach and breach of basic human rights and ensure their users private communications and the best possible security online.

New legislation will undermine the security of communications platforms, threatening the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.

Experts across fields and sectors will converge in Sydney for the Human Rights and Technology conference hosted by the Australian Human Rights Commission. We’ll be there.

Access Now released a new report that concludes that any policy mandating backdoors into encrypted products “would likely be effective for only a minimal time, would be substantially costly, and might harm security in general.”

Europe is exploring ways to bypass MLATs. Any system for cross-border access to data must increase protections for fundamental rights.

Here’s we’ve learned so far about EU plans for encryption and other digital security measures.

Encryption is under threat in the European Union.