WhatsApp boss decries attacks on encryption as Orwellian
Will Cathcart likens governments’ stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room.
Will Cathcart likens governments’ stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room.
Home secretary Priti Patel uses a conference organised by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to warn that end-to-end encryption will severely erode the ability of tech companies to police illegal content, including child abuse and terrorism.
End-to-end encryption could be challenged with security agencies enabled to monitor user messages.
IBM is working on future-proof encryption methods able to keep our data safe both in storage and active use.
Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have made hundreds of raids, and arrested at least 80 people, after cracking into an encrypted phone network.
Four European apps which secure user data via end-to-end encryption, ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota, have issued a joint-statement warning over recent moves by EU institutions that they say are setting lawmakers on a dangerous path to backdooring encryption.
New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.
Millions of users flocked to the chat apps in recent weeks. There are a few factors behind the surge.
Europol has launched an innovative decryption platform, developed in close cooperation with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
Court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the contents of a user’s encrypted mailbox.
“We recognize that your conversations are private,” says Google. Google is upping the security for at least some of the […]
Digital rights campaigners on Monday criticized a proposal by European Union governments that calls for communications companies to provide authorities […]