Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Date: Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Journalists use strong encryption to keep themselves and their sources safe. Marginalized communities rely on encryption to protect themselves online and offline. Companies use encryption to protect their business secrets. We all rely on encryption to protect us when online banking, shopping online, or using medicine.
Despite encryption’s importance, some governments and others continue to threaten strong encryption. For example, in the European Union, some member state governments are pushing for new regulations, known as Chat Control, to demand access to end-to-end encrypted services. There is no way to provide backdoor access to encrypted data and communications without compromising the privacy and security of everyone who uses them.
On 21 October, the Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee is proud to host the third edition of the Encryption Summit. This year’s summit, A Shield in Uncertain Times: The Role of Encryption, highlights the ways encryption protects our security and privacy during dangerous times. Sessions also will discuss the dangers that attempts to undermine encryption pose and how we can keep encryption safe.
CDT Featured Panel:
Spies, Cops, and Cyber-Cops Defending Encryption
Policy makers often frame issues surrounding encryption as a trade-off between abstract notions of privacy and more concrete needs to solve crime and protect national security. This panel seeks to reframe the debate by bringing together former law enforcement and intelligence officials to discuss why strong encryption is necessary for security and for preventing and fighting crime. Speakers will share their perspectives on how encryption has supported their work, and how anti-encryption policy proposals could compromise crime fighting and security in the future
CDT Featured Organizer:
- Greg Nojeim, Senior Counsel and Director of the Security and Surveillance