> To help, Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk, at no additional charge. There is no setup or configuration re

> To help, Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk, at no additional charge. There is no setup or configuration required, no need to modify the way you access the service and no visible performance impact. The data is automatically and transparently decrypted when read by an authorized user. In other words, if someone is able to gain remote access to Google Cloud data, Google handles the decryption for them automatically. Google data centres have damn good physical security, so getting access by other means is not big concern. While this improves security marginally. This is just Google PR move trying to distract users from the fact that they have the keys and they give those keys to NSA when they ask for them. ps. If they would allow users to set and manage the keys as they please, they would make NSA snooping little more difficult. Instead of having instant bulk access to everything, they would need to investigate the apps running and that would involve humans.