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New U.K. online surveillance proposal could have international reach
A new surveillance proposal in the United Kingdom is drawing criticism from privacy advocates and tech companies that say it gives the government far-reaching digital surveillance powers that will...
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Investigatory Powers Bill could allow Government to ban end-to-end...
The new Investigatory Powers Bill could ban WhatsApp and iMessage as they currently exist and lead to the weakening of security. Introducing the Bill this week, Home Secretary Theresa May said that it...
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Snowden Never Told Us About Ransom Encryption
While Edward Snowden is the source behind the largest scandal on the internet, he sure didn’t warn us that hackers would put ransoms onto their spyware. A special ransomware virus was discovered which...
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Apple’s Encryption Fight Turns To The UK
After a major victory in the United States, Apple is facing an another threat to its encryption efforts on a different front: the United Kingdom. The Cupertino-based tech giant typically shies away...
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Microsoft releases encryption tech for bioinformatics
Allows researchers to work on data securely. Microsoft has released tools that allow bioinformatics researchers to work on genome data sets securely to protect privacy. Genomic data is becoming...
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Paris attack stokes the flames in fight over US data encryption
Last week’s terrorist attack on Paris sounded a call to arms for hawkish U.S. officials seeking broad oversight of encrypted digital communications, some of whom used the opportunity to rekindle...
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Paris attacks reignite debate over encryption,surveillance and privacy
WASHINGTON — Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris have revived the debate over whether U.S. tech companies should be required to build “backdoors” into encrypted phones, apps and Internet sites to let...
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Encryption Debate Erupts Post-Paris Attacks But Don’t Expect Any Change Soon
Despite the lack of evidence, the Obama Administration has revived the encryption debate, pointing to encryption as an aid to the terrorists behind the Nov. 13 Paris attacks. Investigators from France...
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The secret American origins of Telegram, the encrypted messaging app favored...
An encrypted communications app called Telegram has been in the news a lot this week, amid fears that the Islamic State has adopted it as its preferred platform for messaging. On Nov. 18, Telegram...
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Why Government and Tech Can’t Agree about Encryption
Your g better and better at protecting your privacy. But Uncle Sam isn’t totally comfortable with that, because it’s also complicating the work of tracking criminals and potential national-security...
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Encrypted messaging app Signal now available for desktops
The much-lauded encryption app Signal has launched a beta program for a desktop version of the app, which will run through Google’s Chrome browser. Signal Desktop is Chrome app that will sync messages...
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Apple, Google encryption is a blow to public safety
A November 2015 report of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York City sets forth succinctly a huge public safety problem of which most Americans are unaware: “Most people today live...
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McCaul wants new commission on encryption and law enforcement
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said he plans to introduce legislation that would allow the creation of a “national commission on security and technology challenges in the...
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FBI Director: Silicon Valley’s encryption is a “business model problem”
Leaders in both major political parties have increasingly been calling on tech companies to give law enforcement encryption backdoors in the wake of recent terror attacks in Paris and California....
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Encrypted Messages Stymied Probe of Garland Shooting — FBI Director
FBI Director James Comey Jr. testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington December 9, 2015. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who said after the Paris attacks that the status...
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FBI chief James Comey says Calif. killers used encrypted email, but not...
The couple who killed 14 people and wounded nearly two dozen others this month in California chatted secretly of jihad long before they married or entered the United States, not on social media as...
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Paris attack planners used encrypted apps, investigators believe
French counterterrorism investigators believe that the men suspected in last month’s Paris attacks used widely available encryption tools to communicate with each other, officials familiar with the...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Mounts Defense of Encryption on “60 Minutes”
In a “60 Minutes” appearance Sunday, Apple CEO Tim Cook reiterated his support of encryption, in the face of renewed criticism from the U.S. intelligence community that these digital locks interfere...
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Senate Intel chair: “It’s time” for encryption legislation
Congress must enact a law that would require companies to decrypt data upon government request, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) argued Thursday in a Wall Street Journal...
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China Antiterror Law Doesn’t Require Encryption Code Handovers
BEIJING—China passed a new antiterrorism law that stepped back from previous language of concern to global technology firms, but which still raises questions about its scope and the potential impact...
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