> It's the first such flag-raise I've seen. After the Snowden leaks that showed even in-country citizen-to-citizen communication was being scooped up by the NS

> It's the first such flag-raise I've seen. After the Snowden leaks that showed even in-country citizen-to-citizen communication was being scooped up by the NSA without a warrant through fiber taps (if I remember that right) when Google replicated the data to out-of-country data centers, Google announced encryption of those links: Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-encrypts-data-amid-backlash-against-nsa-spying/2013/09/06/9acc3c20-1722-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-en...