Google breaks promise of data encryption on Android Lollipop

Google seems to have silently backed out from its promise. Last year, the tech giant had announced that all its upcoming devices running android 5.0 Lollipop would require full-disk encryption.

With the new phones running Lollipop are out in the market, they don't seem encrypted by default making it clear that the company has quietly pulled back its promise.

Last year, Google had said that the devices running its next version of Android a 5.0 Lollipop will require full-disk encryption on all upcoming phones by default.

Google's Android 5.0 compatibility definition for full-disk encryption states, "For devices supporting full-disk encryption, the full-disk encryption should be enabled all the time after the user has completed the out-of-box experience. While this requirement is stated as should for this version of the Android platform, it is very strongly recommended as we expect this to change to must in the future versions of Android."

However, a report pointed out by ArsTechnica reads, "At some point between the original announcement in September of 2014 and the publication of the Android 5.0 hardware requirements in January of 2015, Google apparently decided to relax the requirement, pushing it off to some future version of Android".

Another report by 9To5Google said that the Galaxy S6 demo units showcased at MWC are reportedly not encrypted.

Now it is just a matter of time and you need to wait until the final shipping starts.

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