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 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 ...

WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But ...

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

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.

No one sends SMS anymore; instead, most use WhatsApp or Signal. Encrypted calls ... This would include finding a technical way to create encryption backdoors into software. All "while safeguarding ...

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, ...

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 ...