Trialing in July

 Zoom Video Communications Inc is planning to offer all its free and paying users end-to-end encryption for video calls and will launch a trial version in July, the video conferencing provider said yesterday.

Under a law to protect kids from paedophiles

The US government is trying to sneak a law banning encryption under a law to protect kids from paedophiles.

 
Bought the main company

For decades the world thought it was safe behind encryption systems which were secretly owned by the CIA, according to a Washington Post report.

Threaten regulation

US senators pummeled Apple and Facebook executives over their encryption and threatened to regulate the technology unless the companies make encrypted user data accessible to coppers and spooks.

Snowden warns of the new battleground

Security whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that the world is facing its biggest security crisis in history as governments attempt to undermine encryption.

Epyc fail

AMD has issued a firmware patch to fix its  Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology (SEV) encryption.

We want to participate in every encrypted email

While the UK has been distracted by Brexit, GCHQ has sounded out plans to force IT companies to hand over opened copies of every encrypted email sent by their customers.

Sky and BT warn that government was wasting its time

In a move that everyone foresaw, other than the people who gave you Brexit, a small change to Google’s browser could make the UK government’s attempts to censor the internet useless.

But no back doors

The European Commission has proposed that member states help each other break into encrypted devices by sharing expertise around the bloc.

The laws made up by Aussie politicians decide reality

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the laws of mathematics come second to the law of the land in a row over privacy and encryption.