Global Encryption Day 2025

In uncertain times, encryption keeps us safe. Join us on 21 October 2025, to celebrate the 5th annual Global Encryption Day!

  • Organize an event for Global Encryption Day 2025.
  • Participate in an event organized in your part of the world or online.
  • Register for the third Encryption Summit. This year’s theme, “A Shield in Uncertain Times: The Role of Encryption,” will bring together experts, advocates, and policymakers from around the world to explore how encryption protects privacy, security, and trust in a rapidly changing digital environment.
    • The Internet Society will host the panel “The Cross-border Cost of Weakening Encryption” (13:00–14:00 UTC), highlighting how global efforts to weaken encryption can create cascading risks across borders and undermine cybersecurity everywhere. Our President and CEO Sally Wentworth will be one of the speakers, joining a distinguished panel of global encryption experts.
  • Speak Up for Encryption: On Global Encryption Day, the Global Encryption Coalition wants to highlight how encryption keeps us safe in uncertain times. Promote and share GED on your own social media channels, and how you can let the world know that encryption makes people powerful.
  • Hear stories from people around the world who rely on encryption to keep them safe in dangerous times.
  • Find out how the Global Encryption Coalition fights to protect strong encryption.

 

Date and Time

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Location

Online

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