Google Secure Access

Wireless networks, especially public/free ones, are not very secure. One can somewhat easily view the information you send over the internet if it's not encrypted or secure (https). This is where Google Secure Access comes in.

Google has come out with Google Secure Access. It's a Google engineer's side project (as most Google products are, because developers are given 20% of their time for side projects). After a free download, Google protects your network usage by sending all your traffic through Google's servers.

.. your internet traffic will be encrypted and sent through Google's servers to the Internet. The data that is received will then be encrypted and sent back through our servers to your computer.

It's still in beta. Seems like a good idea. Obviously there will be a lot of hoopla about privacy because Google's servers "see" your data. But there was similar hoopla about Gmail scanning emails, and it seems that hoopla has died down dramatically, though Gmail still scans emails religiously.