Privacy is not security

Google is very good at precisely controlling what happens to the data. You never hear about some huge leak where 1B google accounts had their whole data taken.

In the wake of discovery of attacks by China[0] and the NSA[1] Google has adopted a nation-state actor threat model and a siege mentality around data access and encryption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...