<div dir="ltr">{with apologies for anyone receiving this more than once due to being on different lists}<div><br></div><div>Thanks to several people for confirming for Friday's call; based on the inputs on the doodle it is scheduled for 3:30PM on Friday. Further details below. Look forward to speaking to many of you then!</div><div><br></div><div>Raman.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Access requests your participation in a conference call on Friday, October 2, 2015 at 3:30 PM GMT (UTC) to discuss a collective endeavor to defend strong encryption.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Our safety and privacy depend on secure communications tools and technologies, like encryption. Encryption protects our conversations and our transactions. In some cases, it even saves lives. However,</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">in the UK, France, India, and China, we are seeing government proposals that would undermine the safety and security we rely on in our increasingly digital lives. </span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is an international threat that requires an international response.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Access will propose an open coalition letter that identifies our shared principles and asks world leaders to support strong encryption and oppose bad policies. We request your presence and your valuable input.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call-in information:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">International Dial-in Number: </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="tel:%2B1%20209-255-1000" value="+12092551000" target="_blank">+1 209-255-1000</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Access Code: 319333</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you're unable to participate and want to be included in future discussion, please send me an email and let me know (if you haven't done so already).</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Speak to you all on Friday.</span></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2015 at 23:27, Raman Jit Singh Chima <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raman@accessnow.org" target="_blank">raman@accessnow.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>To follow up on this, we were zeroing in on Friday for organising a call on global encryption policy engagement and how groups can collaborate. </div><div><br></div><div>For people interested, it would be great if you could fill in this <a href="http://doodle.com/poll/zxpk5uqwhgne3puu" target="_blank">Doodle</a> so that we can lock up a time and work out the logistics for this. As discussed, the idea for this call would be to share updates on what might be coming next down the line on this in India, the US, the UK, and elsewhere, and discuss how developing a letter targeting world leaders on the subject that can be signed by experts, civil society, and firms across the world could feed into country specific efforts. In case you are interested but can't make it, do feel free to let me know and we will try to ensure you get notes and top-level take-aways from the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Raman.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 September 2015 at 10:45, Anja Kovacs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anja@internetdemocracy.in" target="_blank">anja@internetdemocracy.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I'd be interested in joining such a call of it happens. Please keep me updated.<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Anja<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 23 September 2015 at 00:31, Raman Jit Singh Chima <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raman@accessnow.org" target="_blank">raman@accessnow.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><p dir="ltr">I think its a good idea to see what we can do to further more coordination and advocacy on this front globally amongst the groups that are interested. From Access, we have been trying to work on a global effort to push on positive crypto policy - and the India developments over the last few days saw lots of public and press interest on this which we should support. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I would like to suggest that people interested in this join together in a call early next week - to share information and see what needs to be kept in mind for India as well as a larger global effort on advancing a secure Internet and pushing back against weakening encryption.</p><span><font color="#888888">
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