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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Dear all, <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Please find below information regarding Global Encryption Day, and the opportunity to sign onto a high-level statement to show your organisation's commitment to protecting strong encryption in the face of continued threats. Should you have any questions about the Global Encryption Coalition or Global Encryption Day, don't hesitate to get in touch, <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Best</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Sheetal. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">This year, the <a href="https://www.globalencryption.org/" target="_blank">
Global Encryption Coalition</a> is organizing its<span class="gmail-m_6769584323473531331apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://ged.globalencryption.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">“Make the Switch” campaign</span></a><span style="color:black">,
which culminates in the first annual Global Encryption Day on October
21st. The campaign and Global Encryption Day aim to improve public
awareness of end-to-end encryption, inspire users to make the switch to
end-to-end encrypted services, and to send a message
to governments to abandon plans that will weaken encryption. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Encryption
advocates are facing tough challenges to encryption and an increasingly
difficult environment to operate in. Global Encryption Day aims to
proactively counter this trend by providing
a rallying point for highlighting the importance of strong encryption
and showing that stakeholders from the Internet community and beyond
support and defend the use of strong encryption. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">As part of Global Encryption Day, we are launching the Global Encryption Day Statement. A
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16CxeAttpzxvSptBORjOI0CJ0MzNbSF2ELDtJKSkxwvM/edit" target="_blank">
high level statement</a> calling on governments and the private sector
to reject efforts to undermine encryption and instead pursue policies
that enhance, strengthen, and promote use of strong encryption to
protect people everywhere. We are asking your organization
or company to add its name as a signatory to the Global Encryption Day
Statement. The greater support we can show on Global Encryption Day, the
bigger impact we can have on creating a better environment for
encryption advocacy to come.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Please sign your company or organization on to the Global Encryption Day Statement
<a href="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/c1f39dbb9b9a4d76be4ea9df20a0f383" target="_blank">here</a>.
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