French presidential candidate Macron talks tough on tech firms over terrorism

 French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has become the latest high profile European politician to threaten U.S.…

UK wants tech firms to build tools to block terrorist content

 UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd is holding talks with several major Internet companies today to urge…

Europe’s justice ministers unsure on whether to push for decrypt law

 European justice and home affairs ministers are putting their heads together to try to decide on…

Researchers critique security in messaging app Confide

 White House staffers have been drawn to Confide by its security features, which include messages that…

Messaging app Wire now has an external audit of its e2e crypto

 Encrypted messaging app Wire has now published an external audit of its crypto protocol, Proteus, and…

How WhatsApp is fighting spam after its encryption rollout

 WhatsApp proved itself to be the most YOLO-crypto company of 2016 when it turned on end-to-end…

ProtonMail adds Tor onion site to fight risk of state censorship

 Swiss-based PGP end-to-end encrypted email provider, ProtonMail, now has an onion address, allowing users to access…

Encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp denies “backdoor” claim

 A security issue has been flagged in the hugely popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp that could…