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Google announced Thursday that improve encrypting Android, its mobile operating system, so that the company can not provide user keys with a court order or
The announcement came shortly after Apple had issued a similar plan for their iPhones and iPads and amid growing concerns over piracy and privacy of online content . A spokesman for Google said that Android already has a system of “encryption”-as in technological jargon is called codificación– system, but now the difference is that it is automatically activated on the next generation of the program.
“For three years Android offers encryption and passwords are not stored outside the phone so that they can be shared with the authorities,” the spokesman said in a statement.
“In the next release of Android, encryption will be enabled by default when you purchase the product, so no one has to think and activate” he added. Google will not say when the next release.
Apple said late on Wednesday its new cipher will default on its iOS operating system 8, available on the iPhone 6 which goes on sale Friday. May also be installed on existing iPhones and iPads. “ Your personal data such as photos, messages (including attachments), emails, contacts, call history, iTunes content, notes, reminders, will be under the protection of your word key “ sets the new policy posted on the website of Apple.
The update occurs in the context of the program of mass surveillance of American government found the following documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the excontratista of the National Security Agency.
According to these documents the government would be accessing private data stored on computers and other devices civilians. The announcement also comes after the scandal generated with filtering celebrity photos stored in iCloud.
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