Zoom Chief Executive Eric Yuan’s comments that the software company would work with law enforcement by not offering the strongest encryption for free calls using the popular videoconferencing service ...

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing examining a Groundhog Day issue in internet policy: Should the government require tech companies to redesign their systems so that ...

It’s possible for companies to design their encryption systems to allow law enforcement agencies to access customer data with court-ordered warrants while still offering solid security, U.S.

Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your data, arguing that national ...

At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states of the U.S. now have access to tools that allow them to get into locked or encrypted smartphones and extract data from it, researchers have ...

The official pointed to Australian and U.K. laws as models for the U.S. and an emerging “international consensus” on the issue. SAN FRANCISCO — Tech companies could provide keys to decrypt information ...

The major problem law enforcement faces in obtaining digital evidence is not the encryption of devices but figuring out which company holds the relevant data and how to get it, according to a study ...

The CEO of popular video conferencing software Zoom said the company has no plans to offer end-to-end encryption to users of its free version so it can continue working with law enforcement. During ...

Every six minutes, on average, Facebook gets a request from a U.S. government agency for information about gangs, drug trafficking or other suspected crimes, and the social network generally ...

Zoom plans to deliver stronger encryption for certain business customers, but not for free users. The strategy has received some blowback. In this article Zoom CEO Eric Yuan suggested Tuesday that ...

Law enforcement agencies across the United States have tools to access data stored on encrypted iPhones, a report claims, with at least 2,000 agencies in the country now having the means to gain ...

At the RSA Conference in April, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson asked the assembled audience of information security professionals for their "indulgence on the subject of encryption." Law ...