Police in at least seven cities around China have issued notices since last week, demanding parents “immediately” uninstall encrypted messaging apps from their children’s mobile phones. This is one of the most recent attempts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to censor information and control the Chinese people, according to Chinese dissidents. The apps banned…

A French court ruling earlier this week has been lauded as a “milestone victory” by campaigners and could have devastating consequences for hundreds of convictions which the National Crime Agency (NCA) has obtained in Britain. The Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation on Tuesday quashed the judgment of the Nancy Court of Appeal in…

The FBI’s ability to see some of the contents of iMessage and collect metadata from WhatsApp in as little as 15 minutes are two of the revelations found on a recently published internal bureau document. First published last month by Property of the People following a Freedom of Information Act request, the document contains an infographic…