Amazon Quietly Removes Encryption Support from its Gadgets
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/amazon-removes-device-encryption-fire-os-kindle-phones-and-tablets
While Apple is fighting the FBI in court over encryption, Amazon
quietly disabled the option to use encryption to protect data on
its Android-powered devices. The tech giant has recently
deprecated support for device encryption on the latest version
of Fire OS, Amazon's custom Android operating system, which
powers its tablets and phones. In the past, privacy-minded users
could protect data stored inside their devices, such as their
emails, by scrambling it with a password, which made it
unreadable in case the device got lost or stolen. With this
change, users who had encryption on in their Fire devices are
left with two bad choices: either decline to install the update,
leaving their devices with outdated software, or give up and
keep their data unencrypted.
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--Lauren--
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