WhatsApp may have paused its plan to change its privacy policy but that delay hasn’t stopped other messaging apps taking advantage of the confusing situation it created. Millions of people have ...

All communications on WhatsApp, including text messages, calls and media, are end-to-end encrypted by default, using the highly secure Signal protocol. Telegram allows users to engage in group chats ...

The criminal charges against Pavel Durov, Telegram’s founder, raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and the app’s approach to privacy and security. By Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel Mike ...

Last weekend, Raphael Mimoun hosted a digital security training workshop via videoconference with a dozen activists. They belonged to one Southeast Asian country's pro-democracy coalition, a group at ...

After tech behemoths like Twitter moved to ban Trump and thousands of other far-right accounts, millions moved to apps like Signal and Telegram for their encrypted messaging services. There's one rub, ...

Russian organizers are using Telegram to communicate. They should know it's not end-to-end encrypted. Credit: Chung Sung-Jun / Staff / Getty Images Russians have turned to the popular hybrid messaging ...