Gmail’s end-to-end encryption project is dead. Start using end-to-end encryption

Three years earlier, Google had announced that they are building an end-to-end encrypted Chrome plugin to automatically encrypt emails between Gmail users. Nevertheless, ending a project that would have brought end-to-end encrypted emails to Gmail users around the world shows where Google’s real interests are: Not in protecting their users’ private data, but in harvesting it for their own benefit. Google wants to leave the final decision about whether or not to make use of encryption to the user, but cryptography expert Matthew Green criticizes this harshly via Twitter, calling it a “self-serving decision”:

While easy email encryption is a must to make sure no-one can read your personal information, this option will never become available to Gmail users.

Source: tutanota.com