Android: Google at the request of the authorities can remotely unlock the smartphone – PC World

Google can remotely unlock most of the smartphones on the request of law enforcement.

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Prosecutor’s Office District of New York published an extremely interesting and also very worrying for Android users document. It shows that Google at the request of law enforcement agencies can remotely unlock your smartphone providing them access to stored data.

What versions of Android can thus unlock?

Google can unlock smartphones running Android older than 5.0 Lollipop. It can also be done in the case of smartphones “lollipop” that do not have encryption enabled. By default, it is used in the Nexus line of devices. Other manufacturers do not apply to “strong recommendation” Google leaving the decision to include this affecting negatively the performance options to the user.

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In the case Android 6.0 Marshmallow Google announced in late October that the inclusion of the option of full encryption is compulsory for new devices (you will, however, had the opportunity to turn it off), which have a capacity of use AES at least at 50 MiB / s .

As is the case with iOS?

In the case of a competitive platform implicit data encryption is switched from iOS 8.