Forty per cent of IT professionals now use encrypted email - has a tipping point been reached?

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Apple's and WhatsApp's conversion to end-to-end encryption has brought secure messaging to the mainstream - but there is still work to do on the convenience side

This article is one in a series of pieces about Privacy by Design and privacy engineering. More will follow over the coming weeks. In a recent survey, almost 40 per cent of the respondents said they...

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