Is encryption a threat to law and order, or an essential tool for staying secure online? Two events this week show how much disagreement there still is about it. First, at a meeting at the ...

All European Citizens should have the right to use end-to-end encryption in all forms of digital communications, in order to ensure online privacy and protection against unauthorised government ...

The latest example came last week when governments in India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates demanded that RIM provide them with some way of monitoring Blackberry communications, or face a ...

Technological advances are making adoption of network and data encryption more practical than ever, spurring its use in enterprises. Sixty-six percent of respondents to aPonemon Institute survey said ...

Every six minutes, on average, Facebook gets a request from a U.S. government agency for information about gangs, drug trafficking or other suspected crimes, and the social network generally ...

In a reversal of course, Zoom's CEO says the videoconferencing company will begin to offer end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to all users -- both paid and free -- beginning in July. Zoom had previously ...

After weeks of criticism over its inflated encryption claims, videoconferencing platform Zoom announced in early April that it would develop full end-to-end encryption for video and audio calls made ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is reversing course and will let customers resume encrypting locally stored data on their Fire tablets. Amazon removed the ability to encrypt local data in September because it ...

TIME AND AGAIN, people are told there is one obvious way to mitigate privacy threats of all sorts, from mass government surveillance to pervasive online tracking to cybercriminals: encryption. As ...