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 ...

The U.S. government on Monday announced the U.K. would drop its demand for Apple to provide a "back door" to user data. The move represents a triumph for the iPhone maker and, more broadly, for end-to ...

Technology companies are bracing themselves for more attacks on encryption after the UK government issued an order requiring Apple to create a backdoor to allow security officials access to content ...

At a summit at the Department of Justice today, FBI Director Christopher Wray shared cases where the support of technology companies helped law enforcement rapidly identify and save children being ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. DELRAY BEACH, Fla., June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Email Encryption Market is projected to reach USD 23.33 billion ...

Law enforcement experts and policymakers are due to meet on 12 September to decide on proposals to require technology companies, such as Signal and WhatsApp, to scan all encrypted messages and ...

Attorney General William Barr renewed the longstanding feud between law enforcement and tech companies over the issue of encryption on Tuesday, arguing that companies are jeopardizing authorities’ ...