Encryption

Other countries are looking to set up institutions like the Australian one dedicated to protect people from digital harm, says Julie Inman Grant

With this, the customers will retain control over encryption keys and the identity service to access those keys

Musk had announced that the micro-blogging platform would soon allow organisations to identify their associated accounts

Founder Pavel Durov claimed that the company has been keeping the user's data under surveillance for the past 13 years

Winners opened the way to powerful new quantum technologies; findings enabled work on quantum computers, encryption

Video chat app Zoom has announced that it is bringing end-to-end encryption feature to its cloud phone service Zoom Phone and it will soon be available on Breakout Rooms.

Every VPN operating in India will now require to do the KYC for users and keep logs of their usage for five years

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TMS Ep58: Privatisation, Google smartwatch, RBI rates, encryption

Is India getting its act together on privatisation? Will Google's smartwatch set the pulse racing? Will RBI maintain the status quo on rates? How does encryption protect data? Find all answers here

Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced that it is working to let users send money in cryptocurrency to friends and relatives

If we wish to preserve free and open soci­eties, then we must preserve the privacy and security of our online communications

Encryption is the practice of scrambling data to make it unintelligible for even the service providers

The feature is still under development and there is no release date available as of now, said the WABetaInfo in a post published on Twitter

New rules for digital media have troubling implications

The company believes it's found a security weakness that could jeopardise the confidentiality of the world's internet data, banking transactions and emails

Homegrown instant messaging app Hike Messenger, later known as Hike Sticker Chat, has been officially shut down

India among 7 countries to back a UK-led campaign against end-to-end encryption of messages by social media giants such as Facebook, which they say hinder law enforcement by blocking access to them

The company will also be using AES 256 GCM transport encryption as its default, which it describes as "one of the strongest encryption standards in use today"

Zoom has attracted millions of free and paying customers amid the pandemic, in part because users could join a meeting - something that now happens 300 million times a day - without registering

Another media report claimed that Zoom doesn't use end-to-end encryption to protect calling data of its users