The new Amazon Fire tablet is displayed during a media event introducing
new Amazon products in San Francisco, California September 16, 2015.
REUTERS/Beck Dieffenbach
Posted on 03/08/2016 10:02:54 AM PST by Swordmaker
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said it plans to restore an encryption feature on its Fire tablets after customers and privacy advocates criticized the company for quietly removing the security option when it released its latest operating system.
“We will return the option for full-disk encryption with a Fire OS update coming this spring,” company spokeswoman Robin Handily told Reuters via email on Saturday.
Amazon's decision to drop encryption from the Fire operating system came to light late this week. The company said it had removed the feature in a version of its Fire OS that began shipping in the fall because few customers used it.
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I’ve got one of those... can Norton be put on it? Do you know?
In the meantime nsa will plant backdoors into you machines to get what they need, so even when its brought back, they’ll be able to read your tablets.
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