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Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying

Posted by timothy on from the now-how-to-effectively-test? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen were [part of a] wide-ranging session at SXSW today and they revealed that Google's data is now safely protected from the prying eyes of government organizations. In the last few days Google upgraded its security measure following revelations that Britain's GCHQ had intercepted data being transmitted between Google datacenters, Schmidt said that his company's upgrades following the incident left him 'pretty sure that information within Google is now safe from any government's prying eyes.'"

2 of 155 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Safe just from prying eyes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, and plenty of direct evidence that they're doing things illegally and then faking up a legal investigation based on that evidence. Which is, itself, illegal.

  2. Re:Yeah right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    the NSA employees working for google wont...