Carissimi, vi segnalo quanto sotto, che mi arriva dall'ACM. Ciao, Enrico --------------------- The email request below for sign-on to the attached proposed "civil society" group letter to EC leaders has been organized by the DC- and Brussels-based Center for Democracy & Technology <https://cdt.org/who-we-are/>, with which USTPC has collaborated publicly in the past (most recently earlier this month on an intellectual property matter <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/public-policy/security-research-...>). The /general/ subject of the letter is the importance of maintaining the integrity of end-to-end encryption. The /specific/ context addressed by the letter is whether and when encrypted conversations should be scannable by law enforcement seeking to find and interdict "CSAM," or "child sexual abuse materials." The letter addresses these issues, in substantial measure, from a technical perspective. *Date:* September 25, 2020 at 7:48:45 AM EDT *To:* National Security Surveillance Coalition <surveillance-coalition@googlegroups.com> *Subject:* *[surveillance-coalition] Sign-On Letter To Object To Object To Attack on Encryption at the European Commission* Colleagues: CDT is concerned with the approach being taken in this experts report <https://t.co/9A2NoGKCv3?amp=1> to the European Commission on detecting CSAM in communications protected by end-to-end encryption. The options the report short-lists for Commission consideration would all undermine encryption, and we explain how in the attached sign-on letter. Among other things, short-listed options for the Commission mis-characterize communications to which exceptional access has been provided to law enforcement as having been protected by end-to-end encryption. We are inviting civil society organizations to join Article 19, Bits of Freedom, CDT, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Global Partners Digital, Hermes Center, Internet Society, IT-Pol and Prostasia Foundation in subscribing to the letter. The letter is timely and is time-sensitive. The report, as well as the issue of law enforcement access to encrypted communications in the child sexual abuse context, are on the agenda <https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/45682/cm03665-en20.pdf> for a meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council <https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/configurations/jha/>on October 8-9. We would like to disseminate the letter before that meeting. Accordingly, the */deadline for signing on is close of business Eastern time on Thursday, 1 October. /*To sign onto the letter, please */send the name of your organization as you would like it to appear in the list of signatories to me at gnojeim@cdt.org <mailto:gnojieim@cdt.org>./* (If you respond this week and receive an out-of-office message, ignore it!) *Who:Civil Society Organizations* *What:Subscribe to the attached sign-on letter objecting to experts’ report to European Commission* *When: No later than 1 October at 5:00 pm Eastern* *How:RSVP to Greg Nojeim, gnojeim@cdt.org <mailto:gnojeim@cdt.org>, with the name your organization as you would like it listed on the letter* Best, Greg Nojeim, CDT -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli@mat.uniroma2.it home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --