Turnabout: Amazon restore data encryption to its shelves in spring – 01net.com

Adrian
BRANCO

Reporter

The timing could not be worse for Amazon: in the middle of a battle “against Apple FBI” in Homeric accents, withdrawal – confidentially – of the encryption option data on Fire OS devices of US giant has not gone unnoticed. A move that was seen as even more of “collaboration” with tacit US intelligence services that the fire arose from the comments of a simple tablet Kindle Fire user who noticed the lack of functionality.

Faced with the outcry, Amazon decided to turn back and announced to our colleagues at the Verge, through a statement, they “remettron (t) option full disk encryption through a Fire update OS (which will be available, ed) later this spring (2016) “.All this without giving further explanation, although the company had said that the decision to remove the functionality was taken last autumn – before the war Apple / FBI – under the pretext that “ users do not use the feature ”

<. p> An argument quite admissible, but still shows that Amazon knows if your tablet is encrypted or not …

Adrian BRANCO

Reporter

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