If they walk out with an Android phone, it's largely vulnerable to surveillance," said Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union. "If a person walks into a Best Buy and walks out with an iPhone, it's encrypted by default. Apple ( AAPL) makes its devices, designs the software, and retains full control of the phone's operating system. But only 1.2% of Android phones even have that version, according to Google.īy comparison, most Apple products are uniformly secure: 94% of iPhones run iOS 8 or 9, which encrypt all data. Even then, not everybody chooses that extra layer of security.Ī Google spokesman said that encryption is now required for all "high-performing devices" - like the Galaxy S7 - running the latest version of Android, Marshmallow. Not until late 2014 did Google begin offering default encryption on Android devices - but only on a small fraction of them.Īlthough 97% of Android phones have encryption as an option, less than 35% of them actually got prompted to turn it on when they first activated the phone.
Google introduced encryption on Android in 2011, but it was buried deep within a phone's settings.
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