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.
Google’s encryption initiative, initially approved last year, was
accelerated in June as the tech giant struggled to guard its reputation
as a reliable steward of user information amid controversy about the
NSA’s PRISM program . . .
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