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Amazon backtracks, decides to bring encryption back to Fire OS
Just a day after we reported that Amazon had quietly removed device encryption from Fire OS version 5, the company has reversed course and decided to bring encryption back to Fire OS
See also: Google, Facebook and other tech giants file in court to support Apple's fight against the FBI
However, if you were expecting an immediate solution, you're out of luck, as the encryption update won't arrive for at least a couple of weeks
"We will return the option for full disk encryption with a Fire OS update coming this spring," an Amazon spokesperson told Mashable on Saturday
The first rumblings regarding the removal of device encryption surfaced earlier this year after a user on an Amazon customer forum pointed out the change in February. The changes affect Amazon devices including the Fire Phone, Amazon Fire HD and Kindle Fire tablets Read more...
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