As of Thursday March 20th 2014 Gmail will encrypt all messages passing through its servers. This will be done by using always using an HTTPS connection.
Google has offered HTTPS connection to individual accounts since 2008 and made it the default connection in 2010.
Even though the messages going from our personal computers to the Google servers were encrypted, the same messages while moving internally at Google were not. What changed is that now even in the Google Servers the messages will remain encrypted.
This is an important step for user privacy and security. It means now Google itself is less likely to check our messages.
It doesn't mean though, that government backed companies such as the NSA won't be able to request access to certain messages or even track them themselves. All hail to the free web!
Link to the official post in Gmail Blog.
Source: Gmail Blog
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