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Why Google’s Now Encrypting Data In The Cloud

Posted on August 17, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Selena Larson reports:

In what seems to be a response to increased anxiety about the privacy of data stored online among both consumers and businesses following revelations of extensive spying by US government agencies, Google announced that Google Cloud Storage, a service used by third-party developers to build cloud apps, now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk. Google is not charging anything extra for the service.

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