Google Addresses WiFi Privacy Snafu with Encrypted Search
Found on eWEEK on Saturday, 22 May 2010
Google May 21 began adding SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for its search engine, a direct response to the company's accidental collection of users' personal information in countries all over the world.
Privacy advocates have been calling for Google to SSL-enable its search for years; the WiFi privacy gaffe accelerated Google's plans to offer SSL for search.
The company turned on HTTPS as the primary setting for Gmail one day after revealing that the Gmail accounts of users had been accessed in a Chinese cyber-attack.
If only Google would listen to the wishes of users for better security instead of trying to cover things up again and again after a snafu situation.