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The Signal app logo can be seen through a magnifying glass on the display of a smartphone
TechGovernment workers are using encrypted messaging apps like Signal to avoid hacks and data leaks—but the price is transparency
By Rebecca Boone, Claudia Lauer and The Associated PressMarch 20, 2025
In this photo illustration, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok and Threads apps displayed on a smartphone screen.
NewslettersThe difference between Mark Zuckerberg and Pavel Durov’s free speech problems
By David MeyerAugust 27, 2024
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov delivers his keynote conference during day two of the Mobile World Congress at the Fira Gran Via complex in Barcelona, Spain on February 23, 2016.
NewslettersAfter Pavel Durov’s arrest in France, don’t hold your breath for that Telegram IPO
By David MeyerAugust 26, 2024
Nand Mulchandani
TechEx-tech CEO who now manages AI for the CIA explains why it’s like your ‘crazy, drunk friend’
By Frank Bajak and The Associated PressMay 20, 2024
NewslettersBesides keeping data safe, this emerging tech could be a key trust builder for businesses
By Nick RockelApril 26, 2024
In this photo illustration, Telegram app login page is being displayed on a mobile phone
NewslettersThe fight to protect encryption just got a boost in a ruling about Telegram and Russia
By David MeyerFebruary 13, 2024
NewslettersThe U.K. just put Microsoft under the spotlight for its partnership with OpenAI
By Rachyl JonesDecember 8, 2023
Signal app displayed on a mobile with in the background U.K flag with online safety bill seen on screen, in this photo illustration, on August 14, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium.
NewslettersThe U.K.’s new Online Safety Act: The good, the bad, and the ugly
By David MeyerSeptember 20, 2023
Signal president Meredith Whittaker, on stage at Fortune Brainstorm Tech.
TechSignal president says company will not comply with proposed U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law requiring mandatory message scanning before encryption
By Kylie RobisonJuly 13, 2023
Encryption button on keyboard.
NewslettersLawmakers just keep trying to undermine the security of everyone’s conversations, putting Big Tech in an impossible position
By David MeyerMay 13, 2022
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson talks during a joint press conference with Vice-President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography Dubravka Suica (not seen) on the children's rights package handled in the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium on May 11, 2022.
Tech‘The most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen’: Europe’s proposed online child sexual abuse crackdown slammed by cybersecurity experts and privacy activists
By David MeyerMay 12, 2022
Column chart showing crypto startup fundraising data
NewslettersVenture capitalists just keep plowing billions into crypto startups
By Declan HartyApril 20, 2022
NewslettersFormer employees allege overblown projections at quantum encryption startup Arqit
By Jessica MathewsApril 18, 2022
Random 0s and 1s
TechHoneywell’s former quantum unit announces its first commercial product—and it’s totally random
By Jeremy KahnDecember 7, 2021
A photo of a person holding a mobile phone with a message from WhatsApp saying the company takes user privacy seriously displayed.
TechThese WhatsApp-killers are growing—and they say they have Facebook to thank for it
By Jeremy KahnJanuary 22, 2021
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