The joint letter from human rights organizations, eminent cryptographers, tech companies and trade associations takes aim at the FBI’s ever-louder calls to ban the use of effective cryptography.
We
urge you to reject
any
proposal
that U.S.
companies deliberately weaken the
security of their products.
We
request that
the White House
instead
focus
on
developing policies that will promote rather than undermine the wide adoption
of
strong encryption technology.
Such policies will in turn help to
promote and protect
cybersecurity, economic growth, and human rights, both here and abroad.Strong encryption is
the
cornerstone of the modern information
economy
’s security.
Encryption protects billions of people every day against countless threats
—
be
they street
criminals
trying
to steal our phones and laptops,
compute
r criminals trying to defraud us,
corporate spies trying to obtain our companies’ most valuable trade secrets,
repressive
governments trying to stifle dissent, or foreign intelligence age
ncies trying to
compromise our
and our allies’ most sensitive national security secrets.
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