"By default, Slack encrypts data at rest and data in transit for all of our customers. In an emailed statement, the spokesperson described Slack's policies thus: Our policies, practices, and default settings are aligned with the business uses of our product," a spokesperson 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. "Every day that Slack fails to offer end-to-end encryption it puts abortion seekers, providers, and facilitators in danger, which is why we're making a major push to get the company to address this security issue and protect its users," she said. These issues become especially pressing in the USA, as following the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v Wade private communications can be used to criminalize abortion seekers, Seeley George added.
"For many of these groups and individuals, Slack is an absolutely vital communication tool, but it could also become the basis of government targeting, repression, censorship." "In the US and around the world, governments are using data and digital communications to target human rights defenders and people exposing human rights violations, including political nonprofits, activist networks, journalists," the letter states.
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