The next version of Android will encrypt data by default – TICbeat

Most do not know, but about three years ago Android includes the ability to encrypt data stored on the terminals. Come on, that in the smartphones Android today, if the user wants to improve their privacy by encrypting the data stored have to activate the encryption system, which according to a spokesman for Google, responsible for the mobile operating system that present one, will change in the next version of the OS, Android L.

Specifically, in Android L encrypting information will be enabled by default , so that only you know the password assigned to each terminal user can view pictures, videos or saved messages. This was confirmed by Niki Christoff, Google spokesman who said at the beginning, with the following words:

For more than three years ago has offered Android and encryption key is not stored outside the terminal , so it can not be shared with government agencies. As part of our next version of Android, will encryption enabled by default, so you dont even have to think about turn “

Why change policy right now about this encryption system Well, for two reasons. The first, which is a hint in the above statement, because they seek to improve their image with users on the subject of privacy, after the revelations of Snowden was touched by proving that it is important for them and they are not willing to bow to the requests for information from government agencies (enabled by passing default encryption system in Android, and the way it works, Google can not deliver data stored on smartphones users governments and their agencies although there by court petition). And second, because in the last few hours Apple announced a similar move in iOS 8 and this is Google’s response to that motion.

Sea for whatever reason, rotation thus giving Apple as Google’s good news, at least for users in general, which become a little safer from cyber criminals, requests for information, cases of government espionage etc, and for those who fight for the defense of privacy in particular. Yes, anyone to pull the bells ringing, not least because governments continue to have many avenues to gain private information from users (for example, in Apple’s case, if a user has synchronized the phone with iCloud, pictures taken with him and others will be also stored there, where agencies, police, etc. can access each other in principle only with judicial authorization but probably without).