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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

“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

The more steps a cipher had, the more time it took to encrypt.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

A VPN encrypts your connection but doesn’t scan for malware or identify phishing sites.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

So, just like a VPN, Tor encrypts the traffic between your device and the Tor network and, in that process, your IP is changed to that of the Tor node.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

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

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

To accommodate this, the company shares design files through encrypted servers and protected internal systems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that requires special software to access, masking user identities through encrypted networks.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Cursor was started by four MIT graduates in 2023 as an encrypted messaging startup, but has expanded into AI coding tools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

It also looked like no letter was ever encrypted as itself—that is, an “A” was never an “A.”

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

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

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 Doctorow, Cory