Making email encryption more user friendly

President Obama revealed this week that he isn't allowed to have an iPhone. The Secret Service makes him stick to a BlackBerry.

Google says it’s going to boost its encryption efforts to better safeguard our data. It can't promise to keep us totally secure, but the effort's worth plenty of PR points.

New information about NSA surveillance activity emerges. Even encrypted data is vulnerable to its data mining.

Will the revelation that data encryption isn’t as secure as thought change the way businesses operate?

Following Lavabit's lead, Silent Circle ends its encrypted email service so clients can avoid government scrutiny.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over its collection of phone data. And what can you do personally to protect your data?

This story is complex but it's also kind of end-of-the-world-y

The company announced that, starting immediately, it will encrypt the searches that users conduct but only if the search originates from the main…