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@circuscritic Security wise, it does make sense. Supposedly, you still have these documents in original (edit: I mean, in physical format), and you can scan them once again how many times you want. I imagine it would be worse to simply decrypt these and leave them in a random folder somewhere on users' phones in plain sight, available to any app that would read them.
There are plenty of options for encrypting your files anyway.
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Why, did it encrypt and then delete the files that it detected as important when it scanned the device? That's just even worse.
@ReversalHatchery I don't have access to the feature but I'm assuming the option was rather opt-in? And now they're sending notifications to everyone affected, so it's not like it's doing anything the users are unaware.
I do agree they could have better explained the reason they're choosing to delete the documents instead of decrypting them.
I hope that's the case.