The Electronic Frontier Foundation is keenly worried that President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress will step up surveillance activities and pass laws to curtail electronic rights.

As a result, the EFF is advising the tech sector to use end-to-end encryption for every transaction by default, and to scrub logs. “You cannot be made to surrender data you do not have,” the EFF said.

“We need to start securing our systems now,” said Rainey Reitman, director of the EFF’s activism team, in an interview. “If we wait until he [Trump] starts putting overbroad government demands on tech companies, they won’t have the time to clean up their logs and encrypt data.”

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