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Encryption Is Not a Crime


Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

Just in recent years, the war against encryption has affected the US, the UK, Sweden, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Japan, and all the European Union countries with proposals such as . When law enforcement officials claim they need to be able to read everyone's messages and see everyone's personal photos to be able to fight child predators, they seem to neglect that: In an encouraging development this week, Apple won a case fighting an attempt from the UK Home Office to hide from the public details of their latest attack on encryption.

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