Amazon removes encryption from its products

By Rudy Takala

Published March 3, 2016 10:41pm ET

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Amazon removes encryption from its products — In a new OS update, the option to use encryption has been removed on Kindle e-readers and other devices that uses its Fire operating systems, including cellular devices, tablets and televisions. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) | Mark Lennihan

Amazon has removed the option of using encryption on its Android-based products in the latest update of its operating system, allegedly because users were not taking advantage of it.

“In the fall when we released Fire OS 5, we removed some enterprise features that we found customers weren’t using,” Amazon said in a statement. However, the company said, “All Fire tablets’ communication with Amazon’s cloud” do include “appropriate use of encryption.”

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