encrypt
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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
They might log and sell your data, inject malware into your device, or claim to encrypt your traffic when they’re not actually doing anything.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026
“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
It follows criticism from government and police after Meta started to encrypt Messenger chats by default.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024
“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
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