Open Rights Group
“Strong encryption strengthens the foundation of trust online and ensures that our digital spaces remain ones where individuals can live authentically and without fear.”
Shae Gardner from LGBT Tech explains why encryption is so important for the LGBTQ community 🏳️🌈
#e2ee #encryption #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #privacy #security #queer #queercryption
Open Rights Group
LGBTQ people are core users of the Internet 🏳️🌈 🌐
80% participate in social networking, compared to 58% of the general public.
Messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption help to keep LGBTQ people safe.
Read more from LGBT Tech ⬇️
https://www.lgbttech.org/post/2019/11/22/lgbt-tech-release-encryption-one-sheet
#e2ee #encryption #queercryption #privacy #security #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer
Open Rights Group
LGBTQ people need online communities for support 🏳️🌈 🌐
End-to-end encryption underpins this essential lifeline with the safety of confidentiality.
It's a matter of survival, particularly for people who live with unsupportive families or in oppressive societies.
Save encryption. #PracticeSafeText 💬
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/queercryption-safety-in-numbers/
#e2ee #encryption #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt #queer #privacy #security #queercryption
Open Rights Group
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Apple appeals the UK government’s order to backdoor its encrypted services.
The fight to save encryption continues. Why? Backdoors are a gift for criminals and predators.
We must keep our personal data and family photos secure. We need encryption.
https://www.theverge.com/news/623977/apple-uk-encryption-order-appeal
#Apple #encryption #privacy #security #e2ee #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
If the Secretary of State promises to act before 17 March, then small sites may well be saved, and more besides as people understand the new duties.
Action is needed – quickly!
If you're concerned, or impacted, then please email your MP (UK), asking that small, harmless sites are exempted from duties under the Online Safety Act, before they're closed down.
Take Action ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
#SaveOurSites #fediverse #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #netplurality
Open Rights Group
Save Our Sites!
Faced with fines under the UK Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites will shut down by the 17 March deadline. This is a threat to net plurality and federated social media!
The Secretary of State has powers to change the categorisation of sites under the OSA.
The UK government must act quickly to exempt small and harmless sites that don't experience problems.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-our-sites-deadline-17-march/
#SaveOurSites #fediverse #OnlineSafetyAct #netplurality #ukpolitics
Open Rights Group
We deserve to live free from persecution. Where this is lacking in the physical world, many LGBTQIA+ people rely on encryption to find community, resources and support.
Attempts to break #e2ee are not only damaging to privacy, but also a security threat.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/queercryption-safety-in-numbers/
#encryption #lgbtq #privacy #security #lgbt #lgbtqia #digitalrights
Open Rights Group
We need to #PracticeSafeText 💬
You can’t scan communications without breaching privacy.
You can’t introduce message scanning software that undermines encryption in a way that’s anything other than less secure than what we have now.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/practice-safe-text-campaign-launched/
Open Rights Group
NEW: We've launched our #PracticeSafeText 💬 campaign to defend and promote the use of encrypted services.
Encryption keeps your online communications and transactions safe. But it's under attack from powers that threaten your security.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/practice-safe-text-campaign-launched/
Open Rights Group
The UK Online Safety Act gave Ofcom powers that could make companies scan your private messages.
But cybersecurity experts agree that weakening encryption with ‘backdoors’ harms everyone’s safety.
We want governments to promote security features, NOT threaten them.
Privacy is online safety.
#e2ee #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity #security #ukpolitics #OnlineSafetyAct #ofcom #PracticeSafeText
Open Rights Group
We're raising funds to promote the benefits of encryption and warn of the threats to security.
Coming after Apple was forced to withdraw an advanced security feature from the UK, we must act now to save the encrypted services we rely on to stay safe!
Donate today. #PracticeSafeText 💬
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-encryption-in-the-uk#/
#e2ee #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity #security #crowdfunder #digtialrights #ukpolitics
Open Rights Group
❌ You can't trade privacy to prevent crime.
⚠️ Message scanning tech punches a hole in everyone's security. Surveillance organisations, hackers, scammers and predators alike will be able to creep into your life.
Read our longread on the need to protect end-to-end encryption ⬇️
#PracticeSafeText #e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #privacy #security
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-case-for-encryption/
Open Rights Group
Privacy is security.
Message scanning powers in the UK Online Safety Act will break end-to-end encryption – the firewall that protects us from predators and criminals.
Parents, children, domestic violence victims all at risk.
Forcing Apple to put a backdoor in its encrypted services shows that the government is prepared to play fast and loose with our security.
Save encryption #PracticeSafeText
#e2ee #encryption #privacy #security #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
The UK government has made millions of people less secure by ordering Apple to carve a backdoor into encrypted services.
With the cost of cybercrime to UK economy estimated to be £22Bn a year, the war on encryption is a reckless and foolish obsession.
Read ORG’s response ⬇️
#e2ee #encryption #Apple #privacy #cybercrime #security #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
APPLE WITHDRAW ENCRYPTION TECH FROM UK
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@JamesBaker says for ORG:
“The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a security feature. As a result U.K. citizens will be at higher risk of their personal data and family photos falling into the hands of criminals and predators.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo
#encryption #apple #e2ee #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #security
Open Rights Group
The #ProtectNotSurveil coalition has called on the European Commission to not expand digital surveillance against migrants.
The proposed legislation would grant Europol new mass surveillance powers, put lives at risk, and criminalise migrants and solidarity organisers.
Read their position paper ⬇️
Open Rights Group
Amnesty's new report shows that the police are supercharging racism through predictive policing.
At least 33 UK police forces have used prediction or profiling tools.
“These systems are developed and operated using data from policing and the criminal legal system. That data reflects the structural and institutional racism and discrimination in policing and the criminal legal system.”
#policing #police #precrime #predictivepolicing #codedbias #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
Predictive policing systems exacerbate racism and discrimination against people from lower socio-economic groups.
ORG supports Amnesty in calling for predictive policing systems to be BANNED.
Sign the petition to #StopAutomatedRacism TODAY ⬇️
#policing #police #precrime #predictivepolicing #codedbias #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
ORG and over 150 signatories call on the UK government to RESCIND its demand to create a backdoor to Apple encryption.
It "jeopardises the security and privacy of millions, undermines the UK tech sector, and sets a dangerous precedent for global cybersecurity."
"The world’s second-largest provider of mobile devices would be built on top of a systemic security flaw, putting all of its users’ security and privacy at risk."
Open Rights Group
"The consensus among cybersecurity experts could not be clearer:
There is no way to provide government access to end-to-end encrypted data without breaking end-to-end encryption, thus putting every user’s security and privacy at risk."
Join the voice of experts in the joint letter to stop the UK's order to break encryption – Sign and share our petition today ⬇️
#encryption #privacy #Apple #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
We fight for digital rights (UK). Join us.#privacy #freespeech #surveillance #censorship #dataprotection
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