Just as it did with Sweden, Signal is refusing to stay in a territory that undermines its encryption strategy, arguing that a backdoor in France would undermine protections for users worldwide.

The U.K.’s order for access to encrypted material raises questions about its applicability to other companies and its ...

"The problem is that [police officers ... passing a law requiring services like Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage to create an encryption backdoor on similar grounds. If successful, the new rules ...

The problem is, it’s not quite that simple. End-to-end encryption is both complex and subtle by nature: you can’t just add a backdoor that only the good ... data is protected in transit (WhatsApp, ...

Despite years of official criticism of encrypted messaging, CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed that Signal comes installed on agency computers.

Cybersecurity experts are split on how secure the encrypted messaging ... there’s less chance that Signal’s operators have been coerced into adding some sort of backdoor or data logging.

At the core of that is end-to-end encryption ... backdoor into messaging services that use it so they can read messages they think might pose a national security threat. Apps including Signal ...