Google will automatically encrypt cloud data by default
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Although Google's intention are to protect their customers against hackers, the new push towards a cloud storage security comes at a time when there is a lot of anxiety over government spying.
Google also said that the new server-side encryption is already active for all new data that is written to Cloud Storage, and older objects will also be migrated and encrypted “in the coming months.”
Source: Techcrunch
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