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Companies may tell you, for example, that they encrypt biometric data, but they may not tell you the details, so there’s no way to tell how strong their safeguards are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

MediaStreamer is a Smart DNS service that changes your DNS server to stream foreign libraries; it does not encrypt your traffic or change your IP address.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

The browser-based system uses cryptography to encrypt votes, or keep them secret.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025

“When the allegations about the NSA vacuuming up all of our information emerged in 2013, we began to encrypt everything online including our websites, chat applications, and phone apps,” Wisniewski told me.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2024

Use the“autogenerate” feature on our website to have a computer encrypt your clue, or get ideas from the Puzzlepedia page and create your own.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Bank A generates and encrypts a Swift payment message containing transfer instructions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

It then sends the response back to the VPN server, which encrypts it and sends it back to your device for you to decrypt.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

These can be useful, but it’s important to remember that, contrary to the VPN app, which encrypts your entire device’s connection, the browser extension only protects your browser’s traffic.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

While it makes your data more secure, it comes with a downside - it encrypts your data so heavily that it cannot be recovered if you lose access to your account.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

As you type, Enigma encrypts your message—and the number of ways it can do this is mind-boggling.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

It is also working on a system in which OpenAI could store the information with encrypted keys owned by the customer, meaning its employees wouldn’t see model prompts or responses or other sensitive information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The paper says the demand is UK ministers' "latest bid to create a 'backdoor' to access encrypted customer data, a year after the Home Office agreed to drop a previous order".

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

In the parking lot, a legal observer helped her download the encrypted messaging app Signal and join her neighborhood rapid-response group.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

UBTech says the data processed by its U1 robots is encrypted and will not be used to train its AI models.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

First, a Russian-language message was encrypted using a codebook shared among the different embassies and government offices.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Privacy A VPN’s raison d’être: encrypting your traffic to mask your internet browsing from your ISP and prevent it from throttling your connection.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

Quantum computing has the potential to relatively easily break the global and currently used advanced encryption standard, or AES, which involves the same key being used for both encrypting and decrypting data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2025

In fact, the firm's commitment to encrypting messages is so significant that it previously said it would rather be blocked in the UK than weaken the encryption it uses.

From BBC ● May 28, 2024

But the company is encrypting its messaging platform to compete with other secure services that shield users’ content, essentially turning off the lights for investigators.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

I emailed her, encrypting the message, waiting for a reply.

From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow