EuroISPA signs Global Statement on the Role of Encryption in Securing Trust and Enabling the Digital Economy

Last Monday, EuroISPA, along with over 60 other organisations, endorsed a Global Statement a Global Statement on the Role of Encryption in Securing Trust and Enabling the Digital Economy.

We believe that strong encryption is essential to the global digital economy. Encryption safeguards user privacy, protects sensitive data, and enables trust, which are foundations of commerce, communication, and innovation.

Any effort to undermine encryption, whether through backdoors, key escrow systems, or technical mandates, undermines that trust. Weakening encryption introduces systemic vulnerabilities that criminals and hostile actors can exploit.

We call on governments around the globe to advance policies that protect encryption as a vital enabler of digital trust and economic prosperity. Policymakers should strengthen, not weaken, the tools that protect our shared digital infrastructure