Amazon disabled encryption on its Fire tablets and phone because nobody used it

Macworld
Mar 4, 2016, 7:40 am451 pts
Amazon caught flack on Wednesday for disabling the encryption capabilities of its Fire phones and tablets with a software update. The company says its reasoning was simple: people didn’t use it. “In the fall when we released Fire OS 5, we removed some enterprise features that we found customers weren’t using,”…

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