112 global civil society platforms have taken a completely different position from that of certain powerful countries over Facebook’s End-to-End Security Plan. The organisations said in an October 7th, 2019 protest note to Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO not to follow the US, UK and Australia’s position.
One of the signatories to the protest note
End-to-End Security Plan will make access to the huge database that Facebook has become but powerful states always want to have access to such data. They will plead Homeland Security as the warrant but security is not an innocent word but always about power.
Struggle for access into mass data of Facebook and other huge data bases has thus been a major feature of security politics especially since 9/11. Who wins this time will, therefore, be very interesting.
The protest note over is published unedited to show the criss-crossing nature of the protesting INGOs.
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
The organizations below write today to encourage you, in no uncertain terms, to continue increasing the end-to-end security across Facebook’s messaging services. We have seen requests from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australian governments asking you to suspend these plans “until (Facebook) can guarantee the added privacy does not reduce public safety”.
We believe they have this entirely backwards: each day that platforms do not support strong end-to-end security is another day that this data can be breached, mishandled, or otherwise obtained by powerful entities or rogue actors to exploit it. Given the remarkable reach of Facebook’s messaging services, ensuring default end-to-end security will provide a substantial boon to worldwide communications freedom, to public safety, and to democratic values, and we urge you to proceed with your plans to encrypt messaging through Facebook products and services. We encourage you to resist calls to create so-called “backdoors” or “exceptional access” to the content of users’ messages, which will fundamentally weaken encryption and the privacy and security of all users.
Sincerely,
- 7amleh-The Arab Center for Social Media Advancement
2. Access Now
3. ACM US Technology Policy Committee
4. ACT | The App Association
5. AfroLeadership
6. Alternatives
7. American Civil Liberties Union
8. Americans for Prosperity
9. APADOR-CH
10. ARTICLE 19
11. Asociación Argentina de Usuarios de Internet – Internauta Argentina
12. Asociación Colombiana de Usuarios de Internet
13. Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC), Argentina
14. Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
15. Association for Technology and Internet – ApTI Romania
16. Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)
17. Bolo Bhi
18. Bits of Freedom
19. Canadian Internet Registration Authority
20. Cedis/IDP – Centre for Law and Internet Studies
21. Centro de Ensino e Pesquisa em Inovação (CEPI), FGV Direito SP, Brasil
22. Center for Computer Security and Society, University of Michigan
23. Center for Democracy & Technology
24. Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression (CELE), Universidad de Palermo
25. Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)
26. CETyS at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
27. Coalizão Direitos na Rede
28. Code for Romania
29. Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
30. Colnodo
31. Credo Global
32. Defending Rights & Dissent
33. Demand Progress Education Fund
34. Derechos Digitales, América Latina
35. Digital Empowerment Foundation
36. Digital Rights Watch
37. Državljan D
38. Electronic Frontier Finland
39. Electronic Frontier Foundation
40. Electronic Frontiers Australia
41. Electronic Privacy Information Center
42. EMPOWER Malaysia
43. Engine
44. epicenter.works – for digital rights
45. Fanstaum Foundation
46. Fight for the Future
47. Foundation for Media Alternatives (Philippines)
48. Free Press
49. Freedom of the Press Foundation
50. Fundación Datos Protegidos (Chile)
51. Fundación Karisma, Colombia
52. Future of Privacy Forum
53. Fourth Estate
54. Gambia YMCA Computer Training Centre and Digital Studio
55. Global Forum for Media Development
56. Global Partners Digital
57. GreenNet
58. guifi.net
59. Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights
60. Hiperderecho, Peru
61. Hub Women on Technology
62. Human Rights Watch
63. Index on Censorship
64. Instituto Beta para internet e Democracia
65. Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade (IRIS), Brazil
66. Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)
67. International Media Support (IMS)
68. Internet Australia
69. Internet Freedom Foundation
70. Internet Society
71. Internet Society – Bulgaria
72. Internet Society UK England Chapter
73. Internews
74. InternetNZ
75. ISUR, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
76. IT-Political Association of Denmark
77. Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet
78. Iuridicum Remedium, z.s.
79. Latin-American Privacy Association
80. LGBT Technology Partnership
81. Media Matters for Democracy, Pakistan
82. National Coalition Against Censorship
83. NetBlocks
84. New America’s Open Technology Institute
85. Open Briefing
86. Open Rights Group
87. OpenMedia
88. Open Net Africa
89. Open MIC (Open Media & Information Companies Initiative)
90. Paradigm Initiative
91. Pasifika Nexus
92. PEN America
93. Prostasia Foundation
94. Privacy International
95. R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
96. Ranking Digital Rights
97. Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
98. Restore The Fourth, Inc.
99. Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
100. SHARE Foundation
101. Simply Secure
102. South Pacific Computer Society
103. SMEX
104. S.T.O.P. – The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
105. TechFreedom
106. Tor Project
107. Unwanted Witness Uganda
108. Voices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment (VOICE)
109. Vrijschrift
110. WITNESS
111. Women Of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
112. Zenzeleni Networks NPC
