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03-16-2016, 08:00 PM
Google says 77 percent of its traffic is encrypted
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For years, Internet giants, including Google (http://mashable.com/2014/08/07/google-prioritize-secure-sites/)*and*Facebook (http://mashable.com/2011/01/27/facebook-https/), have warned about the importance of using HTTPS, a secure Internet protocol that encrypts your traffic and makes it a lot harder for anyone to eavesdrop on your communications.*
So where do we stand on the HTTPS front in 2016? According to a new, HTTPS-focused section (https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/https/?hl=en) of Google's Transparency Report, first published on Tuesday, Google itself is doing pretty good. Around 77 percent of requests to Google's servers are currently encrypted, up from 50 percent in January 2014 — although it's worth **ting that these figures do **t include YouTube traffic. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/a-quarter-of-google-s-internet-traffic-still-isn-t-encrypted/)
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For years, Internet giants, including Google (http://mashable.com/2014/08/07/google-prioritize-secure-sites/)*and*Facebook (http://mashable.com/2011/01/27/facebook-https/), have warned about the importance of using HTTPS, a secure Internet protocol that encrypts your traffic and makes it a lot harder for anyone to eavesdrop on your communications.*
So where do we stand on the HTTPS front in 2016? According to a new, HTTPS-focused section (https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/https/?hl=en) of Google's Transparency Report, first published on Tuesday, Google itself is doing pretty good. Around 77 percent of requests to Google's servers are currently encrypted, up from 50 percent in January 2014 — although it's worth **ting that these figures do **t include YouTube traffic. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/a-quarter-of-google-s-internet-traffic-still-isn-t-encrypted/)
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