EPIC Joins Letter in Support of Sen. Wyden’s NDAA Encryption Amendment

EPIC joined more than a dozen groups in an August 27 letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee in support of Sen. Ron Wyden’s amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which promotes the use of secure communications technology by requiring the Department of Defense to use end-to-end encryption. Apart from security, the amendment also addressed efficiency and competition concerns, for example by requiring that collaboration systems (e.g. Zoom, WebEx) be interoperable.

EPIC is a longtime 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.