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Google continued its client-side encryption rollout, the feature generally available to some Gmail and Calendar users who can now send and receive encrypted messages and meeting invites.

It follows a client-side encryption beta program for these same enterprise and education users that Google launched late last year.

A Google spokesperson declined to say when the company planned to add client-side encryption to personal Gmail and other consumer-facing services.

The service encrypts emails and meeting events in the client's browser before they reach Google Cloud servers - meaning even Google, as the cloud provider, can't access the encryption keys or decrypt data in the body of the email or in an attached file.

"As customers retain control over the encryption keys and the identity management service to access those keys, sensitive data is indecipherable to Google and other external entities," Googlers Ganesh Chilakapati and Andy Wen wrote in a blog post about the data privacy feature.

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