The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that enabling governments to access everyone's encrypted messages is a human rights violation. It probably won't stop them from continuing to try, ...

The handheld revolution ushering in the integration of smaller radios and smart phones into tactical communication suites also is illuminating distinctions in military classification priorities among ...

Well-intentioned charities and academics have urged Facebook to halt encryption plans for its messaging apps, citing concerns about child exploitation. The call was made in a letter to Facebook CEO ...

Instagram has discontinued end-to-end encryption on the platform, meaning user messages are now only protected by standard ...

The videoconferencing company Zoom has seen its star rise exponentially during the Covid-19 pandemic, as friends and coworkers increasingly turn to the service for a communication lifeline. With this ...

What do you do when you need to perform computations on large data sets while preserving their confidentiality? In other words, you would like to gather analytics, for example, on user data, without ...

Instagram is disabling end-to-end encryption for direct messages on May 8, 2026, a significant privacy rollback from parent ...

Instagram will stop supporting end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) direct messages starting May 8, 2026, meaning private chats will ...