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News, Policy

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

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17 November 2025

Encryption is a cornerstone of the global digital economy. Without strong technical safeguards such as encryption, users cannot rely on online services to keep their most sensitive information, including financial and health data, secure from malicious actors.

Yet, despite overwhelming evidence that backdoors weaken security, policymakers around the world continue to propose measures that would mandate such vulnerabilities. The Salt Typhoon attacks in late 2024 serve as a stark reminder: backdoors always compromise protection and expose users to greater risk.… Read more ...

News

Joint Letter on the UK Government’s use of Investigatory Powers Act to attack End-to-End Encryption

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On Thursday 13 February 2025, the UK Chapter of the Internet Society joined a group of over 100 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts – as part of an effort led by the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC) – submitted a letter to British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper calling on the UK Home Office to rescind its demand that Apple create a backdoor into its end-to-end encrypted services.

The letter stated that civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including members of the Global Encryption Coalition, called on the UK Home Office to rescind its demand for Apple to create a backdoor into its end-to-end encrypted services.… Read more ...

News, Policy

Follow-up on Response to Consultation on: Powers in relation to UK-related domain name registries

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In August 2023, the UK Chapter submitted a response to a UK Government consultation on Powers in relation to UK-related domain name registries.

The Internet Society UK Chapter had responded to the Consultation on the Digital Economy Act 2010, criticizing the consultation deadline during the summer holidays for hindering inclusive stakeholder engagement. They urged further consultations to ensure broad stakeholder involvement in managing UK Internet resources. They highlighted several concerns:

  1. The Act was outdated, given the significant changes in the Internet since 2010, making the drafting of powers potentially inappropriate.
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Events, Project

Webinar: Rebuilding and Enhancing Trust in Algorithms Policy

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Webinar: Rebuilding and Enhancing Trust in Algorithms Policy

When: Jun 3, 2021 16:00 London

ISOC UK England invite you to a Webinar focussing on the presentation of the policy implications and recommendations based on the outcomes of the EPSRC funded ReEnTrust project. ReEnTrust was a collaboration of the Human Centred Computing Group at the University of Oxford, the Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute (AIAI) at the University of Edinburgh, and the HORIZON Digital Economy Research at the University of Nottingham ReEnTrust: Rebuilding Trust in Online Algorithmic Systems.… Read more ...

Events, News, Policy

Multi-Sided Trust for Multi-Sided Platforms

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Topic

This discussion being held on Thursday, April 12, 2018, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM BST brings together representatives from different sectors to discuss the topic of trust on the Internet. This particular panel will focus on consumer to business trust; how users trust online services that are offered to them. Such services include, but are not limited to, online shopping, social media, online banking and search engines.

Recent developments involving Social Media makes this a particularly hot topic.

Chair

Ansgar Koene – Senior Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham, researching algorithm bias

Panellists

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