WATCH: Home Secretary Amber Rudd wants harmful content to be auto-blocked The major technology companies must step up their fight against extremism or face new laws, the home secretary has told the ...

The feature is being rolled out globally to iOS and Android users to provide an 'optional extra layer of protection' to existing backups, according to a spokesperson for the social media giant.

The revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have been intercepting internet traffic highlight an important fact: many forms of ...

It looks like Twitter could be finally adding encrypted messaging to the platform. The code for encrypted direct messages was discovered buried deep in the Twitter for Android application package (APK ...

Facebook is rolling out new encrypted messages, to keep Messenger chats secure. The new end-to-end encryption should mean that messages can only be read by the sender and recipient – and that nobody, ...

Facebook has said it will take until next year to implement a controversial plan to encrypt its messaging apps, amid concerns from police and child safety campaigners that the move will make it easier ...

We don’t know exactly what he said, but in 1971, Ray Tomlinson used Arpanet to send the first email ever. You can bet he was only thinking about getting the message to its destination, not about ...

WhatsApp’s end-to-encryption doesn’t stop the company retaining some information (Picture: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images) WhatsApp announced it was massively upping its security earlier this week ...

Facebook has a stored copy of your private messages because it doesn't use end-to-end encryption - and it's not the only one. Encryption scrambles messages so that if they're intercepted while being ...

You may be forgiven for failing to notice it, but something has changed in WhatsApp today. The instant messaging service has completed a move to fully encrypt all the content within its app in a bid ...

WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption to all of its messages – meaning that the company couldn't give information to governments, even if it wanted to. The latest version of the app will use ...

The major technology companies must step up their fight against extremism or face new laws, the home secretary has told the BBC. Amber Rudd said technology companies were not doing enough to beat “the ...