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Google falters on promise to encrypt Android Lollipop devices by default

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by on March 3, 2015 at 8:47 am
Posted In: Android Lollipop, Around the Web, encryption, Google, Investigations, Mobile

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When Android Lollipop was announced last year, Google said it would require full-disk encryption by default. However, new devices shipping with Android 5.0 don’t include it as a standard feature, Ars Technica discovered. Last October, Google published a blog post that said: “Full device encryption occurs at first boot, using a unique key that never leaves the device.” While its own Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 devices are encrypted by default, the same can’t be said for other devices, including ones that have received Lollipop updates, such as older Nexus phones and tablets and the 2014 Moto G. The new second…

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