[Jerry2]

>Or am I confusing 2 separate programs?

You are. PRISM is a lawful program that Google agreed to be a part of in 2009. Google's data centers were hacked (or the link through the dark fiber was) by the NSA and that's when they started encrypting that link.

[dooglius]

>PRISM is a lawful program

This is, at the very least, debatable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#A...

[Dravidian]

Correct.Google reacted the same way as other companies did for PRISM.

But they didn't know that their data was also accessed via other means & they took action to prevent it.