McCaul wants new commission on encryption and law enforcement

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said he plans to introduce legislation that would allow the creation of a "national commission on security and technology challenges in the Digital Age." The legislation "would bring together the technology sector, privacy and civil liberties groups, academics, and the law enforcement community to find common ground," ...

Apple, Google encryption is a blow to public safety

A November 2015 report of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York City sets forth succinctly a huge public safety problem of which most Americans are unaware: “Most people today live their lives on smartphones, and, in this regard at least, criminals are no different. While in the past criminals may have kept evidence ...

Encrypted messaging app Signal now available for desktops

The much-lauded encryption app Signal has launched a beta program for a desktop version of the app, which will run through Google's Chrome browser. Signal Desktop is Chrome app that will sync messages transmitted between it and an Android device, wrote Moxie Marlinspike, a cryptography expert who had helped develop Signal, in a blog post ...

Why Government and Tech Can't Agree about Encryption

Your g better and better at protecting your privacy. But Uncle Sam isn't totally comfortable with that, because it's also complicating the work of tracking criminals and potential national-security threats. For decades, tech companies have steadily expanded the use of encryption -- a data-scrambling technology that shields information from prying eyes, whether it's sent over ...