Five Eyes Campaign Against Encryption Threatens Democracy (Tech Policy Press)

What are these proposals? Recently, hundreds of civil society organizations, including many members of the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC), have been forced to raise the alarm about anti-encryption legislative proposals such as the UK’s Online Safety Bill (OSB), EU CSAM legislation, and the EARN-IT Act in the US. A vast array of public interest organizations agree that these bills fail to address the problems they purport to address (whether child safety, national security, or online harms), and instead create serious security risks, as well as undermine human rights.