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Open Letter: Facebook's End-to-End Encryption Plans

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,

OPEN LETTER: FACEBOOK’S END-TO-END SECURITY PLANS

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.

Australian digital rights organisations defend encryption

Digital Rights Watch and Access Now have expressed deep concerns about attempts by members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to convince Facebook to abandon its plan to introduce end-to-end encryption in its messaging services.

Attorney General having discretion over prosecutions will do virtually nothing for press freedom

Digital Rights Watch has criticised a recent move by the Australian Government to allow Ministerial decisions over the prosecution of journalists.

Major privacy concerns around national facial recognition database

Digital Rights Watch have welcomed a move by the Victorian Government to control federal agency access to driver’s license photographs uploaded to the national facial recognition database.