WhatsApp will now encrypt your chat backups with passkey. Instead of juggling passwords or copying a 64-digit key, you can ...

WhatsApp was the first private messaging app to offer end-to-end encryption for your chat backups so that your old messages ...

Face, finger or lock-screen code: These passkeys are all you will need to encrypt your WhatsApp chat backups in the near future, the messaging app announced Thursday. Meta-owned WhatsApp, the most ...

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The government has reignited a row with Apple by issuing an order requiring the technology company to provide warranted access to encrypted data stored by British users on the supplier’s iCloud ...

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