Google is “pretty sure” its data is now protected against government spying, Eric Schmidt says

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Google is “pretty sure” its data is now protected against government spying, Eric Schmidt says
By Martin Bryant, 20 hours ago

In a wide-ranging session at SXSW today, Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen discussed everything from Syrian dissidents to robots taking our jobs.

Following reports that Britain’s GCHQ had intercepted data being transmitted between Google datacenters, Schmidt said that the company’s resulting security upgrade had left him “Pretty sure that information within Google is now safe from any government’s prying eyes.”

In addition to increased encryption, which Google has discussed publicly to a degree, Schmidt said the company had made further undisclosed improvements to its security in recent months.

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1. They get the changes approved by NSA?

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2. Plausible ...

denial. Works every time.