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ACTION ALERT
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Tell Congress: Don’t Scan Us, and Don't Outlaw Encryption.
We need your help to tell Congress to stop TWO bills that
could endanger encrypted messaging. The EARN IT Act (S. 1207)
is back, and the goal of the bill is clear: to coerce online
providers into giving up on private, secure messaging. A new
bill, the STOP CSAM Act (S. 1199), would create massive legal
risk for offering full encryption for private content.
TAKE ACTION
PROTECT OUR PRIVACY—STOP "EARN IT"
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EARN IT would throw out critical legal protections for users
and service providers who use encryption to communicate
and share content. Then, it would invite all 50 states to regulate
the internet, guided by a federal commission that will put in
place “best practices” that are sure to include the scanning of
all user messages, photos, and files. All of this will be done under
the guise of fighting online child abuse—something that’s already
a serious crime.
Then there’s the STOP CSAM Act, which could make it too legally
risky for many services to offer encryption at all. If STOP CSAM
passes, offering end-to-end encryption could be used as evidence
that a platform or service is "facilitating" the sharing of illegal
child abuse material (CSAM)—even if there's no other evidence
that it intended to do so. The law would undermine digital
security for all internet users, impacting private messaging and
email app providers, social media platforms, cloud storage
providers, and many other internet intermediaries and online services.
TAKE ACTION
TELL CONGRESS: DON'T OUTLAW ENCRYPTED APPS - VOTE NO ON STOP CSAM
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Having a private conversation is a basic human right. And to have
a private conversation online, we need end-to-end encryption.
The EARN IT Act’s clear goal is to install universal scanning of
messages and photos—a surveillance regime that is not, and never
will be, compatible with real encryption. The STOP CSAM Act’s broad
language could risk criminal charges or civil lawsuits for even offering
an encrypted app, undermining security and free speech online for everyone.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on both bills
later this week. We need you to contact your Senators right now
and tell them to reject these privacy-killing bills. In 2020 and 2022,
more than 200,000 EFF supporters told their representatives to reject
earlier versions of EARN IT. We’ve stopped bills like this before, and
we can do it again. But we need your help.
TAKE ACTION
PROTECT OUR PRIVACY—STOP "EARN IT"
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TAKE ACTION
TELL CONGRESS: DON'T OUTLAW ENCRYPTED APPS - VOTE NO ON STOP CSAM
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Thank you,
Joe Mullin
Activism Team
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Activism | Impact Litigation | Technology
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