Next version of Android will encrypt data by default – Reuters

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

Google confirmed that the next version of its operating system, Android L, scheduled for October, will encrypt default user data that has your smartphone or tablet protected with a password for access, leaving this to be an optional feature.

                     

                          According to a statement sent to Google The Washington Post data encryption will be part of the activation process and stop being optional. So only you can access a mobile device if its owner accept.

When website technology news The Verge, a spokesman Google also confirmed the change in the privacy policies of American business: “As part of our new Android, encryption will be available by default, so the user do not have to think in turn it”

Google’s announcement comes the same week that Apple released its new operating system, iOS 8, who are already active in the new privacy policies the company. According to Apple, it is as of now impossible to access the user information, even if it is requested by authorities. So far, the company could break this protection if the unlock request user data was made from a warrant.

In a note published in the website and Apple signed by its chief executive, Tim Cook, the company ensures that all personal user data from photos, messages or email , are protected by the password you created this.

“Unlike our competitors, Apple can not access your password and, as such, have no access to your data. Therefore, we are technically impossible to respond to requests from the Government to access this data from devices that have iOS 8. “