![]() We’re calling on Meta to announce a firm date for the implementation of default end-to-end encryption for all messaging and message storage, and that the implementation date be no later than December 31, 2022.įight for the Future has launched an open letter to organize support for default end-to-end encryption for all direct messaging as the single most important action you can take right now to protect vulnerable people and proactively create a culture of privacy and security among your user base. It’s clear Meta has been moving in the right direction on this issue, but running limited tests and putting out vague timelines is simply not enough at this critical moment. End-to-end encryption is crucial for protecting people from anti-human rights attacks on their bodily autonomy and personhood. With the reversal of Roe putting millions more people in direct danger of criminalization and attacks from law enforcement and anti-abortion vigilantes, the urgency of securing people’s DMs cannot be overstated. Meta’s failure to implement this privacy feature by default has already left many too many people vulnerable. BSR, the business network and consultancy commissioned by Meta to assess the human rights implications of end-to-end encrypted messaging.The head of the Information Commissioner’s Office, a body that oversees the protection of people’s data in the UK.A former director of GCHQ, the UK’s intelligence and security agency.The former director of the NSA, along with the former homeland security secretary and a former deputy defense secretary.Security experts and human rights organizations have sounded the alarm about this abuse and point to default end-to-end encrypted messaging as a first and best step companies can take to protect targeted communities. We know this is likely the first of many cases to come.įor years, law enforcement has monitored marginalized groups-including BIPOC, immigrants, social justice activists, and sex workers-through their online communications and through other forms of surveillance. We were shaken by recent reports revealing that Facebook handed over a Nebraska teenager’s abortion-related DMs to law enforcement. We’re writing to urge you to implement default end-to-end encryption across all of Meta’s direct-messaging tools and chat back-ups, including for Instagram and Facebook Messenger. Sign the letter now: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Apple, Google and any company with a messaging platform must implement default end-to-end encryption immediately.įight for the Future is a digital rights organization with more than 3 million members nationwide. Everyone should have safe places to communicate with friends and loved ones online. It protects you from police surveillance, stalkers, your creepy ex, and identity thieves who might hack into your messages. Pregnant people, LBGTQ+ people, activists, immigrants, and journalists all benefit enormously from encrypted messaging. End-to-end encryption makes everyone safer.All of these repressive laws will be prosecuted using unencrypted messages. States are also criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare and other acts of bodily autonomy. Now, that violence is being amplified, with dozens of states considering laws criminalizing all kinds of activities-not just getting an abortion but helping a friend get one, helping someone access abortion pills, and even just sharing information about how to get an abortion. This is not a new problem.The reproductive rights of groups such as Indigenous, Black, and disabled people have been violated and oppressed for decades.Facebook is already looking at this for Messenger, it’s been discussed at Twitter and WhatsApp and Signal are already encrypted by default. If enough people demand companies make end-to-end encryption the default, all of our messages can be protected. It’s awful to think that the DMs between the teenager and her mom in Nebraska would have been safe if only they had used a default end-to-end encrypted platform like WhatsApp.Without this security, platforms can access your messages and share them with police hackers can also access them even employees at Twitter can poke through your inbox. Most platforms don’t use end-to-end encryption to protect your messages by default.You might think all your direct messages on Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and Twitter are private, between you and your friends or family – but they aren’t.
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