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EPIC Celebrates Global Encryption Day 2024

October 22, 2024

October 21st was 2024’s Global Encryption Day, a day to highlight the key role encryption plays for keeping personal information secure from prying eyes. Encryption is one of the most important technological mechanisms for protecting the privacy and security of data and data systems, but it continues to come under attack by governments seeking to maximize the reach of their investigatory powers.

Encryption empowers people to have more control over their data in the digital world, ensuring that their personal information stays safe and that their conversations stay private. Encryption is about more than security, it is about trust, freedom, and shaping the future we want.

EPIC is a long time supporter of end-to-end encrypted messaging and has written friend of the court briefs in support of strong encryption, testified on the need to defend encryption, drafted letters to lawmakers concerning legal proposals that could limit access to encryption, and joined a Joint Statement on the EU’s controversial “chat control” proposal, which could put all encrypted messaging services at risk.

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