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Google had promised: going out Android 5.0, Lollipop said the search giant was encrypted by default all contents of smartphones. In our grip, we wrote last November:

Moreover, Android 5.0 introduces a feature that displeases the FBI. Terminals equipped with Lollipop standard are encrypted. For others who have been updated, encryption is enabled in the options.

More than three months later, now we have Lollipop smartphones that have not been designed by Google to market and surprise their data is not encrypted by default. Users can still activate the option, of course, but the measure loses almost its effectiveness. The default encryption would have to make it effective on all new smartphones, as is the situation will not change and only the most geeky users protect their data.

Ars Technica has been able to judge at the MWC which is being held in Barcelona all new Android smartphones are delivered without the option to encrypt the content. The site has asked manufacturers and eventually discovered that Google had changed its policy in the utmost discretion. In the fall, the encryption was mandatory; today it is just highly recommended:

On devices that support it, the full data encryption SHOULD be permanently activated after activation.

Google says that encryption should be mandatory in the future, but the company does not give any date. Is it to be expected for the successor of Lollipop or a more distant version? To date, we have no information, and Google has not (yet) answered questions from the site.

Ars Technica ventures to explain: encryption would have a significant impact on performance, as had also been seen in our test of the Nexus 6. On this model, the encryption was enabled by default and it is perhaps be what explains the slowdown observed during our tests. Google may have agreed to let a little more room for manufacturers of Android devices, the time that encryption is no longer a problem on the material plane.

Suffice to say that before all Android smartphones default encrypt their data, perhaps going to be a while. Recall that the data is encrypted on all iPhone 3GS from the provided set a password to unlock the device.