Amazon disabled encryption capabilities of its Fire phones and tablets with a software update. The company says it removed the features because people didn’t use them. Amazon says the company didn’t want to change the encryption feature. The Fire tablets and phones are still encrypted, but communications between them and Amazon’s servers are encrypted. The issue surfaced recently because Amazon just allowed older tablets to upgrade from Fire OS 4, the previous version of the company’s Android fork of the firm’s Android app, to upgrade to Fire OS 5.”]