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​Symantec warns encryption and privacy are not the same

"Encryption and privacy is not the same thing," said Nick Savvides, Symantec APAC cybersecurity strategy manager. Encryption is a privacy "enhancing tool", Savvides went on to explain, while privacy is more about handling what information is collected, how the collected information is handled, and what other data can be derived from it. The two are ...

Paris attacks reignite debate over encryption,surveillance and privacy

WASHINGTON — Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris have revived the debate over whether U.S. tech companies should be required to build "backdoors" into encrypted phones, apps and Internet sites to let law enforcement conduct surveillance of suspected terrorists. There has been widespread speculation among law enforcement authorities and the media that the Islamic State terrorists ...

Jeb Bush: encryption makes it too hard to catch "evildoers"

Bush, the former governor of Florida, said Tuesday that encryption "makes it harder for the American government to do its job." That job would be, according to Bush, "making sure that evildoers aren't in our midst," echoing a phrase frequently used by his brother President George W. Bush to describe the threat of radical Islamic ...