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Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, says a leaked French government memo risked undermining public trust in cybersecurity protocols, after it was revealed that Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne had ordered cabinet members and their staff to delete popular messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp.

As France bans its ministers from using WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram on security grounds, Signal CEO calls the Prime Minister out. Here's what happened.

A pair of profile legal cases involving Sam Bankman-Fried and Amazon highlight a familiar issue for parents: the use of self-deleting messages.

"It was for advantageous optics," former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh testified on Monday.

While Bankman-Fried lounged on a white chaise chair, Singh realized that FTX was not force for good but had "turned out to be so evil."

Quantum computers may still be years away, but it’s prudent that end-to-end encryption providers are ramping up defences

Dozens of media orgs urge CJI to intervene in raids against NewsClick. Protestors demand accountability of State agencies & officers who overstep the law. Letter to CJI requests norms to discourage seizure of journalists’ phones & laptops & guidelines for interrogation. #PressFreedom

The UK’s long-debated online safety bill (OSB) has been approved by the House of Lords, clearing the way for it to become law. But it has pitted the government, which proposed the bill, against tech companies that provide secure messaging services. Critics say it will allow authorities in the UK…

The now-agreed bill will mandate age verification or estimation, introduce a new censorship regime, and possibly undermine encryption.