It is crucial to keep your data safe! Learn how to encrypt your Android smartphone and keep sensitive data and photos private.

In Android 5.0 Lollipop Google changed up the full disk encryption feature, and made our devices extremely sure. Here's how to enable it on your device.

Why wait for the Android L to have an encrypted Android device? Here's how to encrypt many Android devices in just five easy steps.

WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption for all communication, but it also offers encryption for data backups on Android and iPhone as well - just not by default.

Android users have had the option to encrypt their phones and tablets since 2011, but the setup process for Android L will switch it on by default. iOS has always encrypted data on devices ...

Google is turning on data encryption by default in the next version of Android, a step that mirrors broad moves in the technology industry to ensure better data security.

On Android 4.0, the encryption settings are in the main system settings under Security. The device will be deadly serious about the procedure -- none of the usual Android lightheartedness here.

Google will be making data encryption a default option for Android L, the next version of the company's mobile operating system.