Enlarge / Building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France). reader comments 56 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that weakening end-to-end encryption disproportionately risks undermining human rights. The international court’s decision could potentially disrupt the European Commission’s proposed plans to require email and messaging service providers to create ..
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Getty Images | Olemedia reader comments 114 with Share this story The long-running battle over encryption between tech companies and law enforcement continues, with law enforcement agencies around the world calling on Meta to cancel plans for end-to-end encryption of Facebook and Instagram messages. End-to-end encryption (often called “E2EE”) boosts security and privacy for all ..
Enlarge / Signal app on a phone. Getty Images reader comments 169 with Share this story The nonprofit responsible for the Signal messenger app is prepared to exit the UK if the country requires providers of encrypted communications to alter their products to ensure user messages are free of material that’s harmful to children. “We ..
reader comments 19 with 0 posters participating Share this story To ring in the new year, WhatsApp introduced a new feature to help people circumvent government-imposed Internet shutdowns that the United Nations said last summer work to undermine human rights. “To help, today we’re launching proxy support for WhatsApp users all over the world,” WhatsApp’s statement ..
Enlarge / Technical preview of Zoom’s end-to-end encryption, made available months after Zoom was caught lying to users about how it encrypts video calls. reader comments 88 with 72 posters participating Share this story Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data ..
d3sign / Getty reader comments 94 with 60 posters participating Share this story The secure chat app Signal has become the most downloaded app in Hong Kong on both Apple’s and Google’s app stores, Bloomberg reports, citing data from App Annie. The surging interest in encrypted messaging comes days after the Chinese government in Beijing ..
Enlarge / The iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 13. Samuel Axon reader comments 138 with 84 posters participating Share this story Two years ago, Apple dropped a plan that would have made it impossible for the company to decrypt iPhone and iPad backups for law enforcement, according to ..
Enlarge / Lindsay Graham doesn’t want people reading his texts. But he’ll make darned sure there are backdoors for law enforcement into encrypted texts and devices, and he will pass a law if he needs to. reader comments 88 with 78 posters participating Share this story In a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, ..
Enlarge / All scammers, all the time: my Keybase message inbox. reader comments 44 with 36 posters participating, including story author Share this story Keybase started off as co-founder and developer Max Krohn’s “hobby project”—a way for people to share PGP keys with a simple username-based lookup. Then Chris Coyne (who also was cofounder of ..
Enlarge / The Interpol HQ in France. reader comments 110 with 88 posters participating Share this story Justice Department officials have long pushed for some sort of backdoor to permit warranted surveillance and searches of encrypted communications. Recently, that push has been taken international with Attorney General William Barr and his counterparts from the United Kingdom ..