I've seen this sentiment in a couple of places now -- and the news media and non-technical folks seem to refer to "encryption" very loosely to mean "protected i

I've seen this sentiment in a couple of places now -- and the news media and non-technical folks seem to refer to "encryption" very loosely to mean "protected in the way I want it to be protected at the times I want it to be protected". Can we please use technical terms with precision? You can have data encrypted at rest and in transit that is still accessible to the provider and the fact that the provider can decrypt it for processing doesn't make it any less "encrypted". There is not a total ordering of encryption or security schemes. If you would like to say that the data isn't end-to-end encrypted such that it is opaque to the service provider -- say that. Don't say it isn't meaningfully encrypted.