Amazon removes encryption from its Fire devices and then decides to bring it back

Only a few days ago, Amazon quietly removed full drive encryption support from its line of Fire devices, including the Fire TV Stick streaming media player. Once the news made it online, negative user feedback was so strong that the company promptly decided to bring this feature back. However, it may take a while for the feature to become available once again.

First, the company said the main reason for removing the encryption capabilities of its devices was that customers simply were not using it. One day later, they told Engadget that encryption is coming back - "We will return the option for full disk encryption with a Fire OS update coming this spring." TechCrunch got the same message via email, so we should just wait for the update now.

Those who really care about the privacy of their personal data could just skip the incriminated update and wait for the next one that does not remove encryption. Unfortunately, there seems to be no official information about the version of this update that removed encryption. We will get back to this topic as soon as we find out more, most likely once Amazon releases the update fixing this problem it created itself.