Google enhances encryption for Gmail to avoid US spy agency

The Gmail logo, [IMAGE: COURTESY]

BEIJING: Google enhanced encryption for its Gmail service, according to an announcement made on Friday, so that customers’ data and private information will be protected from interception of the US National Security Agency (NSA).

The protection extension will ensure that Gmail users be exempt from being snooped as the data travels from their machines to Google’s data centres.

This move is out of the concern that people may reduce their online activities after the spy scandal of American government was exposed last year.

Last year, leaked documents by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed that NSA had secretly tapped into links connecting data centres of Yahoo and Google, which outraged these technology companies.

-Xinhua