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We constantly come across cases of security breaches of “private” communication by not just individual hackers, but also by governments all across the world. A prominent case of the latter was that of Edward Snowden, a former NSA “system administrator”. Snowden says that’s how the intelligence officials described his position, while in reality, he was an “infrastructure analyst”, meaning his job was to look for new ways to break into internet and telephone traffic around the world.

A company known as Zip Phone is making it easier to place secure, Wi-Fi enabled phone calls, in order to save consumers from using up the limited number of cellular minutes.

The goal would have been to encrypt your direct messages and other private information, says The Verge. So why did Twitter drop the idea?

Searches on Yahoo.com will now go through a secure server, with users seeing a reassuring "https" in their browsers.

Google confirmed this week it has made a change to better protect the privacy of how people search.