Google can remotely disable the screensaver of Android smartphones. This happens if a court so requires. Only when the device is fully encrypted, Google can not do this.
Many people secure their smartphone with a PIN, password or pattern. If the extension of a suspect is taken up, having one in the Netherlands and the US, at least not to help with the release of the device. You need not necessarily work on your own judgment.
But the court can rule that Google should help to disable the screensaver remotely. Then the police can get data from the device to use it in the case against the accused, according to a report by the US attorney’s office, which was noticed by the BBC. This is only possible on Android devices that are not encrypted.
Encryption is already several years on Android smartphones to turn on, and since the latest Android version (6.0, Marshmallow) devices are encrypted by default.
Apple
addition Google also encrypts Apple smartphones. This happens by default in iOS 8 or higher. When iPhones turned yet on iOS 7, the American police sent smartphone with an empty external hard drive to Apple, and the company pulled the data from the iPhone and put in the hard disk.
The American officer Prosecutor that Apple and Google suspects ‘help’ by enabling standard encryption: “Of course criminals encrypt their smartphone The ultimate losers are the victims.”. There is now a proposal whereby each in New York selling smartphone can be unlocked remotely -. Even if the device is encrypted
RTL Z / Daniel Verlaan
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