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Lurking in the UK Online Safety Act is the spy clause that could make encrypted message apps scan our private chats.

This would shatter our right to privacy and create vulnerabilites that anyone could exploit.

That's why we launched #PracticeSafeText ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-case-for-encryption/

#ORG2025 #digitalrights #e2ee #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol

Lurking in the Online Safety Act is the spy clause that could make encrypted message apps scan our private chats. This would shatter our right to privacy and create vulnerabilites that anyone could exploit. That's why we launched #PracticeSafeText ⬇️ www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-cas...

The Case for Encryption

Message scanning powers are sleeping on the statute book. They must never get activated.

The UK government has already tried to make Apple put a backdoor in its encrypted services. It's clear they want to recklessly dismantle our cybersecurity protections.

We must save encryption to #PracticeSafeText 💬

#GlobalEncryptionDay #encryption #e2ee #privacy #cybersecurity #security #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillance

Powers in the UK Online Safety Act to introduce message scanning technology is far from an online safety measure. It's a gift to predators and stalkers❗

Forcing a backdoor into encrypted systems so everything we send can be scanned makes us vulnerable to anybody who wants to exploit that weakness.

#PracticeSafeText #GlobalEncryptionDay #encryption #e2ee #privacy #cybersecurity #security #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillance

Practice Safe Text for Global Encryption Day 🔒

Messaging apps we use to chat, share and plan shield us from scams, stalking and sextortion.

But the UK Online Safety Act contains a time bomb that lets the government break encryption for surveillance.

Find out more about our campaign ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/save-encryption/

#PracticeSafeText #GlobalEncryptionDay #encryption #e2ee #privacy #cybersecurity #security #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillance

Encryption scrambles what we send on messaging apps.

Only the person you’re talking to can make sense of it. That’s your chats, pics and deets for their eyes only.

This is how we protect kids, parents and people experiencing domestic abuse from those who want to use your private life against you.

#PracticeSafeText #GlobalEncryptionDay #encryption #e2ee #privacy #cybersecurity #security #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillance

What happens encrypted, stays encrypted… unless you add the world press to the chat 🤡

How to #PracticeSafeText:

1️⃣ Use end-to-end encryption.
2️⃣ Check your contacts.

FAO: The US Administration. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

Donate to our campaign to #SaveEncryption: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-encryption-in-the-uk#/

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #security #uspolitics #signal #trump #hegseth #theatlantic #uspol

The clock is running down to save encryption ⏰

Will you join over 750 people who've used our tool to reply to Ofcom's consultation on implementing message scanning powers in the UK?

Stop the attack on end-to-end encryption!

ACT NOW before the consultation closes at 5pm ⬇️

#PracticeSafeText 💬

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

#e2ee #encryption #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol

Carpe DM 👁️‍🗨️?

End-to-end encryption = online safety. It keeps what we send on messaging apps secure from hackers and predators.

🚫 Tell Ofcom NOT to implement message scanning powers in their consultation.

⏰ You have until 5pm TODAY!

#PracticeSafeText 💬

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

#e2ee #encryption #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ofcom #whatsapp #signal

Do you want hackers and predators to slide into your DMs?

That's what would happen if message scanning tech is forced onto messaging apps.

Ofcom's consultation on powers that'd break end-to-end encryption closes on Monday!

Use our tool to tell them #PracticeSafeText 💬

#e2ee #encryption #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #cybersecurity #security #privacy #ofcom #whatsapp #signal

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

Save Encryption. Save the World 🌐

Only by blocking message scanning technology on messaging apps can we ensure online safety!

End-to-end encryption prevents predators and hackers from weeding their way into our private lives.

We must #PracticeSafeText 💬

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-case-for-encryption/

#e2ee #encryption #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ofcom #whatsapp #signal

Message scanning tech on everyone's phone would expose us to dangerous new threats.

How does that achieve online safety?

Tell Ofcom NOT to break end-to-end encryption in their consultation, ending Monday 10 March.

Use our tool to say #PracticeSafeText 💬

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

#e2ee #encryption #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ofcom #whatsapp #signal

❌ No safe message scanning technology exists.

⚠️ These powers would force a cybersecurity weakness onto apps like WhatsApp and Signal.

‼️ Hackers, predators and spies could crowbar their way into everything you send.

✍️ Tell Ofcom: End-to-end Encryption Means Online Safety ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

⏰ CLOSES Monday 10 March at 5pm.

#PracticeSafeText 💬

#e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #ofcom #security #cybersecurity #whatsapp #signal

🚨 Time is Running Out to Save Encryption 🔐

Ofcom is consulting on implementing message scanning powers in the UK Online Safety Act.

This would break end-to-end encryption on the messaging apps we all use!

⏰ CLOSES Monday 10 March, 5pm.

Use our tool to tell Ofcom #PracticeSafeText 💬

ACT NOW ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

#e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #ofcom #security #cybersecurity #whatsapp #signal

Queer identities can be weaponised against us through harassment, blackmail or violence.

Introducing a backdoor to encrypted services with message scanning tech means anyone can find their way into your private life.

Privacy is safety for the LGBTQ community 🏳️‍🌈 🌐

#PracticeSafeText 💬

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/queercryption-safety-in-numbers/

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #security #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #queercryption

“Strong encryption strengthens the foundation of trust online and ensures that our digital spaces remain ones where individuals can live authentically and without fear.”

Shae Gardner from LGBT Tech explains why encryption is so important for the LGBTQ community 🏳️‍🌈

#PracticeSafeText 💬

#e2ee #encryption #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #privacy #security #queer #queercryption

LGBTQ people are core users of the Internet 🏳️‍🌈 🌐

80% participate in social networking, compared to 58% of the general public.

Messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption help to keep LGBTQ people safe.

Read more from LGBT Tech ⬇️

https://www.lgbttech.org/post/2019/11/22/lgbt-tech-release-encryption-one-sheet

#PracticeSafeText 💬

#e2ee #encryption #queercryption #privacy #security #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer

LGBTQ people need online communities for support 🏳️‍🌈 🌐

End-to-end encryption underpins this essential lifeline with the safety of confidentiality.

It's a matter of survival, particularly for people who live with unsupportive families or in oppressive societies.

Save encryption. #PracticeSafeText 💬

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/queercryption-safety-in-numbers/

#e2ee #encryption #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt #queer #privacy #security #queercryption

We deserve to live free from persecution. Where this is lacking in the physical world, many LGBTQIA+ people rely on encryption to find community, resources and support.

Attempts to break #e2ee are not only damaging to privacy, but also a security threat.

#PracticeSafeText 💬

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/queercryption-safety-in-numbers/

#encryption #lgbtq #privacy #security #lgbt #lgbtqia #digitalrights

We need to #PracticeSafeText 💬

You can’t scan communications without breaching privacy.

You can’t introduce message scanning software that undermines encryption in a way that’s anything other than less secure than what we have now.

Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/practice-safe-text-campaign-launched/

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity #security

We're raising funds to promote the benefits of encryption and warn of the threats to security.

Coming after Apple was forced to withdraw an advanced security feature from the UK, we must act now to save the encrypted services we rely on to stay safe!

Donate today. #PracticeSafeText 💬

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-encryption-in-the-uk#/

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity #security #crowdfunder #digtialrights #ukpolitics

The UK Online Safety Act gave Ofcom powers that could make companies scan your private messages.

But cybersecurity experts agree that weakening encryption with ‘backdoors’ harms everyone’s safety.

We want governments to promote security features, NOT threaten them.

Privacy is online safety.

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity #security #ukpolitics #OnlineSafetyAct #ofcom #PracticeSafeText

NEW: We've launched our #PracticeSafeText 💬 campaign to defend and promote the use of encrypted services.

Encryption keeps your online communications and transactions safe. But it's under attack from powers that threaten your security.

Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/practice-safe-text-campaign-launched/

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity #security

End-to-end encryption protects against oppression, abuse of power, cybercrime, algorithmic injustice AND abusers.

If the remedy is worse than the disease, the State may be more concerned with building a mass surveillance apparatus than identifying child sexual abuse material.

#PracticeSafeText #e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #privacy #security

You can’t scan communications without breaching privacy.

If every message is being scanned in an encrypted environment, the ‘end-to-end’ bit of the equation is compromised.

Every phone will be given a security weakness that opens the curtains for abusers to rear window you and your family.

#PracticeSafeText #e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #privacy #security

The Online Safety Act introduced powers for Ofcom to force private messaging providers to install monitoring tech.

Advocates claim that this can at once check everybody’s messages, while somehow preserving end-to-end encryption.

With Schrödinger’s chat, you’ve got nothing to worry about 🤔

#PracticeSafeText #e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #privacy #security #ukpolitics

End-to-end encryption means what you send on messaging apps appears as scrambled code while it’s in digital transit.

Only the person you’re talking to can decipher it on receipt.

That’s everything you send: chats, photos, videos, voice-notes, location pins and links for their eyes only.

#PracticeSafeText #e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #privacy #security

❌ You can't trade privacy to prevent crime.

⚠️ Message scanning tech punches a hole in everyone's security. Surveillance organisations, hackers, scammers and predators alike will be able to creep into your life.

Read our longread on the need to protect end-to-end encryption ⬇️

#PracticeSafeText #e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #privacy #security

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-case-for-encryption/

Privacy is security.

Message scanning powers in the UK Online Safety Act will break end-to-end encryption – the firewall that protects us from predators and criminals.

Parents, children, domestic violence victims all at risk.

Forcing Apple to put a backdoor in its encrypted services shows that the government is prepared to play fast and loose with our security.

Save encryption #PracticeSafeText

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #security #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/save-encryption/