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.…

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…

Social media firms facing fresh political pressure after London terror attack

 Yesterday UK government ministers once again called for social media companies to do more to combat…

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…

Voxer adds end-to-end encrypted ‘private chats’

 Voice-focused messaging app Voxer has added an end-to-end encrypted ‘private chats’ feature on its Android and…

Are encrypted direct messages coming to Twitter?

 Following his chat with whistleblower Edward Snowden, @Jack dropped a hint about what privacy features might be in…