Google Encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying

[Hutzpa]

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday.

The move by Google is among the most concrete signs yet that recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance efforts have provoked significant backlash within an American technology industry that U.S. government officials long courted as a potential partner in spying programs.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-encrypts-data-amid-backlash-against-nsa-spying/2013/09/06/9acc3c20-1722-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html?hpid=z1

If encryption is broken then every banking and e-commerce transaction is at risk of eavesdropping.

[PowerToThePeople]

1. It needs to become the norm.

People need to be taught to use encryption from the start. The more major players get it, the more the "common folk" will think it is important. It is a step in the right direction imo.

[Hutzpa]

4. I think the worrying issue here

is the program falling into the wrong hands and not so much as entrusting NSA with the program but
the thought of how an absolute power can corrupt absolutely.

[BP2]

2. Does it really make a difference if

the NSA still has the keys to the "new" encryption method?!

[Uncle Joe]

3. It may buy some time until Civil Rights respecting people come to power. n/t

[Hutzpa]

5. Even with Civil Rights respecting people

you still don't know who is sponsoring them. The bottom line here is to remove money and influence out of
politics.

[Uncle Joe]

6. I believe that will be a near impossibility at least

in our life times.

However at the very least there should be full and total disclosure at all levels of political finance.