Privacy Advocates, Tech Partner To Petition White House To Support Strong Encryption
Advocacy groups and tech companies have partnered to create a petition on WhiteHouse.gov encouraging the Obama administration to affirm its support publicly for strong encryption and to reject any law, policy or mandate that undermines an individual’s security. “Weakening encryption…
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weakens the entire Internet,” it says. The American Civil Liberties Union, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Open Technology Institute, Tech Freedom and Twitter are among those backing the petition. At our deadline, more than 6,516 individuals had signed the petition in its first two days. For the White House to respond, 100,000 signatures are needed. The group is hoping to make this the most popular WhiteHouse.gov petition and is asking for at least 370,000 signatures.