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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

VPNs mask your IP address and encrypt your traffic, but websites still can collect data on you through cookies, browser fingerprinting and account logins.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

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

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025

Unlike Telegram, which does not automatically encrypt messages in its larger-size chat rooms, Signal limits the size of its group chats and keeps encryption as the default.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2025

“He used a substitution cipher to encrypt his message as a backup, in case you figured out the scytale. Right?” she asked James.

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

"First of all, people underappreciate privacy," says Vytautas Kaziukonis, chief executive at Surfshark, a security software company that encrypts user's online data and aims to make browsing secure.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025

Some Samsung Galaxy smartphones also have "enhanced data protection" which encrypts back-ups of messages, call logs, apps and settings and more end to end.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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

The immediate risk is a “harvest now, decrypt later” approach by bad actors, who are downloading large sets of encrypted data they can’t crack now—but could unlock once quantum computing algorithms are good enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The information is encrypted and transmitted to a secure database that can only be accessed by San Diego police personnel, according to the department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

She added to the informant on an encrypted messaging app that she had "picked up some anarchist literature at the social justice center" which "could have some good tips."

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

"We were surprised that these messages were not encrypted, and that vulnerability was there."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Like Aristotle, Wolff imagined that the embryo contained some sort of encrypted information—code—that was not merely a miniature version of a human, but instructions to make a human from scratch.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

One common security method involves encrypting data with a massive number known as a public key.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

A VPN also adds a layer of protection against government surveillance by both encrypting internet traffic and routing it through secure servers, often located in different countries.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 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

So instead of just encrypting the message with your private key, you also encrypt it with your boss's public key.

From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow