Security News > 2023 > May > 90+ orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption

It won't be until Slack offers E2EE as well as blocking, muting and reporting features to help protect users from harassment, they claim.

"Millions of people use Slack every day to do their work, volunteer, and connect with communities online - including abortion funds and reproductive rights groups that are being targeted by anti-abortion efforts," Caitlin Seeley George, Fight for the Future's campaigns and managing director, told The Register.

Slack, for its part, says despite the lack of E2EE, "We take the privacy and confidentiality of our customer's data very seriously. Our policies, practices, and default settings are aligned with the business uses of our product," a spokesperson told The Register.

"By default, Slack encrypts data at rest and data in transit for all of our customers. All our plans offer customizable retention settings, where customers can automatically delete messages and files after set periods of time. We also offer EKM, a security add-on for Slack Enterprise Grid that allows organizations to manage their own encryption keys using Amazon Key Management Service."

"We're always evaluating our security practices and the best options to protect data on Slack so that we meet our customers' needs and provide an excellent product experience."

Slack declined to answer specific questions about its plans - or lack thereof - to enable E2EE. Meta, Twitter, Apple, Google urged to up encryption game in post-Roe America International cops urge Meta not to implement secure encryption for all US bill to protect reproductive health data is dead. Here's why you should care anyway Google sued over 'interception' of abortion data on Planned Parenthood website.

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