Encryption
Alabama Moves to Put a Gatekeeper on the App Store
The Legislature waved it through, but HB161 locks mandatory age checks and parent-linked accounts into the foundation of Alabama’s app ecosystem.
MembersHow to Keep Your Encryption Keys Out of Big Tech’s Hands
True security starts where convenience ends, by keeping your encryption keys off the cloud and in your own hands.
EU’s Weakened “Chat Control” Bill Still Poses Major Privacy and Surveillance Risks, Academics Warn
The law’s softer tone hides the same blunt instrument: unchecked surveillance wrapped in child safety rhetoric.
MembersVPNs Keep the Lights On in a Darkening Web
VPNs have become the last untrimmed edges of an internet now landscaped for control, the hidden paths through a garden that was once a wilderness.
Tech Firms Unite in Open Letter Against EU Chat Scanning Law
End-to-end encryption faces extinction under a law that treats every message like contraband.
Signal Threatens to Exit Europe Over EU Push for Messaging App Scanning Law
Signal draws a red line in Europe, betting the future of private messaging on a continent unwilling to say no to its own surveillance impulse.
Starmer Adds To UK Civil Liberties Decline With Reckless iCloud Backdoor Demand
The demand is domestic, but the damage is universal.
Tulsi Gabbard Announces UK Retreat from Encrypted Messaging Backdoor Plan
Apple’s defiance held, but the real test may come from Brussels, not London.
EU Revives Plan to Ban Private Messaging
The EU is inching toward the biggest peacetime surveillance experiment in its history, with plans to quietly search every private message before you hit send.
Ireland’s Dangerous War on Encryption
Every backdoor written into Irish law becomes a blueprint for global insecurity.
MembersThe EU’s Plan To Ban Private Messaging Could Have a Global Impact (Plus: What To Do About It)
There are global implications to the EU’s new power grab.
BitChat, New Offline Messaging App, Uses Bluetooth Mesh, No Internet
Offline and encrypted, Bitchat turns your phone into a walkie-talkie for the post-platform age.