Amazon removes encryption from its products

Published March 3, 2016 10:41pm ET



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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