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Press Release | January 29, 2026

EFF Calls on Tech Companies to 'Encrypt It Already!'

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched "Encrypt It Already," a campaign pushing six tech companies to better protect their users’ privacy through end-to-end encryption.The privacy-defending nonprofit recently contacted Meta, Apple, Google, Bluesky, Telegram, and Ring, imploring them to implement long-requested encryption features to secure their...

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington, Alexis Hancock | December 13, 2018

How HTTPS Everywhere Keeps Protecting Users On An Increasingly Encrypted Web

Way back in 2010, we launched our popular browser extension HTTPS Everywhere as part of our effort to encrypt the web. At the time, the need for HTTPS Everywhere to protect browsing sessions was as obvious as the threats were ever-present. The threats may not be as clear now, but...
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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | April 7, 2016

WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to its Over One Billion Users

End-to-end encryption has just gone massively mainstream. In an update on March 31st, the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp quietly pushed an update adding end-to-end encryption enabled by default to its chat and call functionality. They announced the change publicly on Tuesday, allowing the app's over 1 billion monthly...

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