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| Enhanced Encrypted Gmail |
Google has enhanced the encryption technology for its email service. This will make it harder for the National Security Agency to sneak in messages moving within the company's worldwide data centers.
The most extraordinary disclosures in documents leaked is by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden. The NSA had secretly tapped into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world.
Google and other technology companies have been outspoken about the US government's spy programs. The companies are worried on reduction of online activities by people if they believe that almost everything is being monitored by the government. The reduction in the Internet use could effect the companies financially by giving them lesser opportunities for online ads and sell other services.
"Your email is important to you, and making sure it stays safe and always available is important to us," Nicolas Lidzborski, Gmail's security engineering lead, wrote in a blog post.
He added aftwerwards that all Gmail messages a user sends or receives are now encrypted.
"This ensures that your messages are safe not only when they move between you and Gmail's servers, but also as they move between Google's data centers — something we made a top priority after last summer's revelations," Lidzborski mentioned.
The Post has also included that - the NSA's project 'MUSCULAR', principal tool to get the Google and Yahoo data links, operated jointly with the agency's British counterpart, GCHQ. NSA and GCHQ are copying entire data flows across fiber-optic cables that carry information between the data centers of the Silicon Valley giants.
