Amazon has confirmed that version 5 of Fire OS for its Fire tablet removes support for device encryption. In a statement sent to TechCrunch the company said: “In the fall when we released Fire OS 5, ...

While Apple is neck deep in the courts fighting an FBI court order to unlock the iPhone, Amazon quietly drops support for device encryption from its Fire OS operating system. Fire OS is a customized ...

Update: Amazon will release a software update this spring that will restore encryption support to Fire OS 5. Original story: In the wake of Apple’s high-profile fight with the FBI, more users and ...

Less than a day after it emerged that Amazon is quietly dropping device encryption support for its Fire OS devices, the U.S. firm has flip-flopped and said that it will restore the feature. Yesterday ...

Today, several reports pointed out that Amazon’s Fire OS 5 does not support device encryption, drawing a connection between the company’s encryption retreat and the current Apple-FBI iPhone unlocking ...

Shortly after the announcement of iOS 8 in 2014, Google made headlines by saying that it would make full-device encryption mandatory for new Android devices running version 5.0. It then made more ...

Amazon is one of several companies that’s backing Apple in its fight with the FBI over encryption. And yet, Amazon customers are just now noticing that the company dropped encryption from most of its ...

Phones and tablets running Android "Lollipop" will not have device encryption switched on by default, despite an earlier promise by the software maker. Ars Technica first reported Monday the company's ...

Google announced the integration of more security features into Android Q designed to further harden the security of critical areas like the kernel, as well as making storage encryption standard and ...

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Not too long ago, Mountain View was trumpeting that new gadgets with Lollipop would have encryption turned on by default, but, as Ars Technica reports, that isn't the case. The Nexus 6 handset and ...