[reirob]

Thank you for providing your insights, it is important to know that the data on the disks is encrypted. I know about the encryption (https) between the browsers and Google's services - Google was one of the first actually to switch the services to https.

But I have to say that I am still quite surprised that there is no encryption between data centres. Working from time to time for industrial customers, on business critical software, most of the time it is required to encrypt data between servers, even when the hardware is in the same building, because they are afraid of leaks/attacks from inside.

I think Google has to do some explanation to the public about their security. Though I do not know if it is not too late for some google users.