If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

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In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 file photo, people wait in front of an Apple store in Munich, Germany before the worldwide launch of the iPhone 6s. (Matthias Schrader/AP) Kevin Bankston is the director ...

One US senator is calling out the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for pushing the moronic notion that there is somehow a good way to add backdoors to encryption used to protect devices ...

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Encryption protects data on your network or computer from hackers, similar to a padlock that protects your door from intruders. You need to encrypt your business's personally identifiable information ...

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Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The debate over encryption has been in the headlines a lot over the past few weeks ...

Digital encryption has made headlines recently, with a U.S. court ordering Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters in last December's attack in San Bernardino, Calif. — an order ...