Canada’s planned surveillance law is the latest grim step in a series of threats to encryption that are spreading around the world.

As quantum machines become more powerful, today’s uncrackable encryption schemes may become trivial to break. Opinions vary as to how soon that moment, so-called “Q Day,” will arrive, but the threat ...

Strong encryption is the backbone of digital privacy and secure data. Pressure on the government to weaken encryption is mounting, which raises some serious concerns. How do we preserve strong ...

Researchers have developed a revocable, time-based attribute-based encryption scheme for cloud-assisted IoT that cuts ...

Cybersecurity and data privacy are constantly in the news. Governments are passing new cybersecurity laws. Companies are investing in cybersecurity controls such as firewalls, encryption and awareness ...

As we keep participating in more complex data processes, as people, we know that we have to maintain some sort of privacy… Alexandra Henzinger has some important ideas about how to do that. Her input ...

The widespread adoption of encryption began in the mid-1990s, coinciding with the internet’s rapid growth and increasing popularity. Before encryption data was transmitted in plain text, making it ...

Privacy Protection Access control determines who can see sensitive data. Identity reduction changes how much identifying information needs to be present in the analytical environment in the first ...

Now imagine another approach: instead of letting the jewelers have your pile of raw gold, it stays inside a locked box. Only you have the key. By inserting their hands into the box, the jeweler can ...

A 2026 Perspective argues that privacy technologies for miniaturised biosensors must be redesigned around low-power hardware, ...

Instagram has removed end-to-end encryption from its direct messages, marking a quiet but significant change in how private conversations are protected on the platform. The feature, often referred to ...

Enhancing personally identifiable information (or PII) privacy is no longer an afterthought; it’s a fundamental component in an enterprise, just like data security and backup. Therefore, isolating PII ...