At EFF, we talk a lot about strong encryption. Its critical for our privacy and security online. Thats why we litigate in courts to protect the right to encrypt, build technologies to encrypt the web, and its why we lead the fight against anti-encryption legislation like last years EARN IT Act.

Weve seen big victories in our fight to defend encryption. But we havent done it alone. Thats why were proud this year to join dozens of other organizations in the Global Encryption Coalition as we celebrate the first Global Encryption Day, which is today, October 21, 2021.

For this inaugural year, were joining our partner organizations to ask people, companies, governments, and NGOs to Make the Switch to strong encryption. Were hoping this day can encourage people to make the switch to end-to-end encrypted platforms, creating a more secure and private online world. Its a great time to turn on encryption on all the devices or services you use, or switch to an end-to-end encrypted app for messagingand talk to others about why you made that choice. Using strong passwords and two-factor authentication are also security measures that can help keep you safe.

If you already have a handle on encryption and its benefits, today would be a great day to talk to a friend about it. On social media, were using the hashtag #MakeTheSwitch.

The Global Encryption Day website has some ideas about what you could do to make your online life more private and secure. Another great resource is EFFs Surveillance Self Defense Guide, where you can get tips on everything from private web browsing, to using encrypted apps, to keeping your privacy in particular security scenarioslike attending a protest, or crossing the U.S. border.

We need to keep talking about the importance of encryption, partly because its under threat. In the U.S. and around the world, law enforcement agencies have been seeking an encryption backdoor to access peoples messages. At EFF, weve resisted these efforts for decades. Weve also pushed back against efforts like client-side scanning, which would break the promises of user privacy and security while technically maintaining encryption.

If you already have a handle on encryption and its benefits, today would be a great day to talk to a friend about it. On social media, were using the hashtag #MakeTheSwitch.

The Global Encryption Coalition is listing events around the world today. EFF Senior Staff Technologist Erica Portnoy will be participating in an Ask Me Anything about encryption on Reddit, at 17:00 UTC, which is 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time. Jon Callas, EFF Director of Technology Projects, will join an online panel about how to improve user agency in end-to-end encrypted services, on Oct. 28.

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Microsoft is starting to toll out a public preview for end-to-end encryption for Microsoft Teams calls, specifically for unscheduled one-to-one calls that encrypts the communication between both parties.

The company first announced this feature in March during an Ignite conference, and the company announced during this falls version of the virtual conference that the feature will be rolling out public preview.

Microsoft says end-to-end encryption is available for calls made between two parties using the latest version of Teams desktop client for Windows or Mac, or the latest versions of the app on iOS and Android.

For general availability, Microsoft has it pegged for next month on its Microsoft 365 roadmap website. However, it is unclear when Microsoft plans to roll out end-to-end encryption for groups or meetings.

According to the company, both participants must turn on the feature to enable end-to-end encryption, and only the real-time medial flow of video and voice data is encrypted.

However, IT must first enable end-to-end encryption for Teams one-on-one calls in the IT Admin port under Enhanced Encryption policies. There, admins can set which users can use the feature and decide whether the entire organization can use the enhanced encryption or just a select group of users just like you would normally set other policies.

Admins can also manage end-to-end encryption policies using Microsoft PowerShell to apply policies to the tenant, users and groups.

To make end-to-end encryption calls available by using the Teams admin center:

However, end-to-end encryption is still off by default after the policy is configured. After that, users need to turn it on in their Team settings by following these steps, per Microsoft:

When both users have the setting enabled, they will see a shield in the top left corner of the Teams call. Users can hover over the shield to display confirmation that the call is end-to-end encryption.

Microsoft reminds users that Teams still secures a call or meeting with other encryption measures based on industry standards, and data exchanged during a call is always secure while in transit and at rest, according to Microsoft.

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New Delhi: Data Security Council of India (DSCI), launched a whitepaper on encryption titled Encryption and the Digital Economy: Balancing Security, Privacy and National Security. The paper offers a holistic viewpoint on the more extensive encryption debate by engaging with stakeholders within academia, government, law enforcement, as well as the industry. The paper endeavours to widen the horizon around encryption deliberations and bring up the technical, moral, and law enforcement complexities, encryption creates as we attempt to secure personal data and digital services through end-to-end encryption (E2EE).

It extends a deep dive into various perspectives from law enforcement to technology companies, governments, and users. It also provides a detailed overview on the regulatory landscape in India and around the globe on the benefits and challenges of encryption and encryption challenging interventions. The paper offers a comprehensive breakdown of various facets, ranging from encryptions historical and legal context to the technical and constitutional considerations of breaking E2EE and traceability. It also advises the user to look at encryption as a complex tool with a broad and varied impact that has both primary effects and consequences and secondary implications in criminal justice and law enforcement.

The launch took place in the presence of eminent dignitaries, such as Shri Rakesh Maheshwari, Group Coordinator-Cyber Laws, Ministry of Electronics & IT; Dr Gulshan Rai, Former National Cyber Security Coordinator, Government of India; Mr. Subhashis Banerjee, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Ms. Rama Vedashree, CEO, DSCI. A wide cross-section of IT Industry members also participated and offered their perspectives.

Rama Vedashree, CEO, DSCI, said, Encryption has become a ubiquitous part of digital products and platforms and is the necessary protection that underpins digital transactions. Our paper looks at encryption not simply as a security tool but rather places it in the larger narrative around individual privacy, national security, human rights, and the digital economy. Its important to approach this in a holistic manner and engage all stakeholders in progressive policy making.

Prof. Subhashis Banerjee, Professor, IIT-D, said, End-to-end encryption and traceability are contentious issues for which informed nation-wide debate is essential. I congratulate DSCI for its whitepaper on encryption which can provide valuable inputs for such debates. We also require comprehensive threat models for both privacy and national security requirements without which a complete understanding of the problem at hand will remain elusive.

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Public safety and law enforcement officials continue to explore a viable technological solution to their need to lawfully gain access to information on smartphones. The solution currently under consideration, Client-Side Scanning or CSS, grows out of an August 2021 proposal from Apple, Inc.

A group of technologists, who for the last 25 years have come together to co-author seminal articles warning about threats to encryption, have released yet another warning, this time concerning CSS. The paper, entitled Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning, comes complete with recommendations for lawmakers and policymakers.

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WhatsApp chats are end-to-end encrypted, something that the Facebook-owned company has always maintained. End-to-end encryption means that no one apart from the sender and receiver can read the messages, not even WhatsApp. So despite such stringent rules, why is it that every time there is a Bollywood scandal, the WhatsApp chats of the person involved are leaked and accessed? Of late, there have been too many instances of WhatsApp chats of Bollywood celebrities leaking.

In 2020, WhatsApp chats belonging to actress Rhea Chakraborty were circulated all over the internet. Then we saw Deepika Padukone heading to the NCB office after her chats with an alleged drug dealer were accessed. The latest case involves Bollywood actress Ananya Pandey, who was summoned by the NCB after her chats with Aryan Khan, son of Shah Rukh Khan, were allegedly revealed to the authorities.

All these incidents make one question whether WhatsApp messages are really end-to-end encrypted? And how do the chats leak or are accessed by others? We try to explain.

WhatsApp has always maintained that all its messages are end-to-end encrypted. In the given scenario, the messages can only be read by the sender and the receiver and no third person can gain access to them, not even WhatsApp and Facebook. WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption uses a Signal Protocol which keeps the third parties and WhatsApp itself from having access to messages or calls.

"WhatsApp has no ability to see the content of messages or listen to calls that are end-to-end encrypted. That's because the encryption and decryption of messages sent and received on WhatsApp occur entirely on your device. Before a message ever leaves your device, it's secured with a cryptographic lock, and only the recipient has the keys. In addition, the keys change with every single message that's sent. While all of this happens behind the scenes, you can confirm your conversations are protected by checking the security verification code on your device," WhatsApp's FAQ page states.

End-to-end encryption, when implemented well, is a serious business. It is near impossible, if not impossible, to break into end-to-end encrypted data. So, how do WhatsApp chats leak? The reality, in most cases, is that they don't. Instead, they are accessed. And this access happens simply with: Unlock your phone and give it to me. In India, the law around the access of personal devices like smartphones is hazy. In the US or many European countries, cops require warrant before they can seize and search phones and computers.

Here are several scenarios:

-- The phone is physically accessed and the user is told to unlock it. Once unlocked, all chats are accessible. Screenshots can be taken, they can be copied, they can be shared.

-- The phone is physically accessed but it is not unlocked. In this instance, forensics teams can do some of their magic. WhatsApp chats are encrypted but until a couple of weeks ago the Chat Backups that WhatsApp was making to Google Drive or iCloud were not encrypted. These chat backups could be accessed using some specialised tools.

For example, once someone has the phone, data on it could be cloned to a computer and then could be accessed using forensic tools.

-- At the same time, there is an option available to law enforcement agencies to approach Google and Apple with a valid court order and get the WhatsApp chat backups (unencrypted until recently) from them. These backups then could be taken apart in forensic labs.

Even now when the chat backups can be encrypted, the option has to be enabled by the user. So, unless you explicitly tell WhatsApp to encrypt your chat backups, they will still be in unencrypted form.

Law enforcement authorities can contact WhatsApp to share the account records of a user in emergency situations. The store contents of any account may include "about" information, profile photos, group information and address book, if available. Once a request is placed, WhatsApp carefully reviews, validate and respond to law enforcement requests based on applicable law and policy.

However, nowhere does the FAQ page of WhatsApp states that the messaging app shares the message content with the law enforcement authorities. It is because WhatsApp does not store messages once they are delivered or transaction logs of such delivered messages. The undelivered messages are deleted from WhatsApp servers after 30 days. The end-to-end encryption, which is activated by default, does not allow WhatsApp to access the chats of its users.

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Five years after WhatsApp made end-to-end encrypted default, the platform is extending its privacy setting to chat backups.

WhatsApps default-on End-to-end encryptionensures that the 100 billion messages its 2 billion users exchange each day are kept private among sender and receiver only.

Now, five years after launching end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp is announcing the expansion to chat backups as well, allowing users to secure the privacy of entire chats they choose to back up if they lose their phone.

This week, the new option starts rolling out, providing an extra layer of security and online privacy, protecting backups stored on Google Drive or iCloud with end-to-end encryption.

The update is massive when you consider the sheer volume of text and voice messages that people exchange not to mention everything else they send each other on the app, including media, video calls, etc.

WhatsApp is now the only global messaging service at its scale that provides this level of security for its users messages.

To activate the feature and ensure backups are end-to-end encrypted, WhatsApp users can either set up a password of their choice or a 64-digit encryption key that only they know. As end-to-end encryption fundamentals go, neither WhatsApp nor their Google or Apple backup service provider will be able to access neither the backups nor the key required to unlock them.

WhatsApp is starting to slowly roll out the feature this week to users with the latest version of the app.

Note: You wont be able to restore your backup if you lose your WhatsApp chats and forget your password or key. WhatsApp cant reset your password or restore your backup for you.

WhatsApp is piloting a new feature that lists small local businesses in a directory searchable by users looking for local

WhatsApp will soon let users choose to hide their "last seen" timestamp from some specific contacts at a time.

WhatsApp is offering access to a new beta version of its desktop app to let you experiment with new features.

WhatsApp has announced that your entire chat history can now be seamlessly transferred between operating systems without losing encryption.

According to reports, WhatsApp is developing a way to let you transfer your chat history between operating systems and phone

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature called 'View Once' that lets users set photos and videos to disappear from

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