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News and Insights on the World of Encryption, Security and Privacy

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Attacks on Group Messaging

Traditional methods of protecting valuable business and personal data are an arms race with no winners. It is time for a new strategy & platforms that enable data minimization and ensure that service providers & adversaries are kept out.

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Wickr Announces Encrypted Screen Sharing

Encrypted calling is coming to millions of Wickr Me users, along with private voice messages next to be followed by screenshot detection for iOS and Android across all apps. Today, we’re making it easy to use strong vetted encryption and ephemerality for anyone — for personal or business conversations, so there is no more reason to jump to insecure apps to make a phone call or leave a message.

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Privacy is inevitable. Thoughts on the Uber-Waymo Trial

Wickr announces our Customer Security Promises program designed to offer utmost transparency about how we build and test the platform against key security promises we make to our users. With that, we aim to provide customers with the ability to assess our performance towards the security and privacy standards that form the foundations of trust.

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