As the first major tech company to comply with government demands for encrypted data, Microsoft sets a dangerous precedent.

Forbes reports that Microsoft complied with an FBI request for decryption keys to a suspect's personal laptops last year.

Investors are pumping millions of dollars into encryption as unease about data security drives a rising need for ways to keep unwanted eyes away from personal and corporate information. Major data ...

U.K. officials have ordered Apple Inc. to implement a backdoor in its iCloud file storage service, the Washington Post reported today. The backdoor would enable the government to access Apple users’ ...

After a two-year campaign from the FBI, U.S. intelligence officials, and powerful politicians calling for backdoor access into Americans’ encrypted data, a new Harvard study argues that encryption is ...

In an era where cyber threats are ever-evolving, ensuring the security of our data is paramount. From quantum-resistant laptops to high-security enterprise servers, different computer systems offer ...

The European Union is now arguing various versions of encryption backdoor rules, but they are not expected to agree on much. Their members, though, are likely to each create their own contradictory ...

A Florida draft bill that would require social media companies to provide encryption backdoors for law enforcement officials to access user accounts has cleared a key legislative hurdle and will now ...

Jim Kohlenberger is co-chair of Trusted Future and an innovation policy leader who has served as a policy advisor to two U.S. Presidents. The Washington Post reported in February that the U.K.