including in the UK<\/a>) are trying to force tech firms to provide back doors into their encryption. And Google\u2019s belief that providing encrypted data will satisfy its legal requirements hasn\u2019t yet been tested in a court of law.<\/p>\nSo, whether your data is protected from CLOUD Act requests as a Data Boundary customer is still up in the air; but, Hayete pointed out, local partners like France\u2019s Thales don’t have to follow US government directives. If you\u2019re concerned about US intrusion, Google Cloud Dedicated may be a safe route \u2013 but only if you live in France.<\/p>\n
For everyone else, we have to rely on the legally untested protections offered by Data Boundary, or the nuclear option of air gapping.<\/p>\n
Hayete couldn\u2019t confirm if the UK government is a Data Boundary customer.<\/p>\n
Lock-in<\/p>\n
In his speech, Kyle made a big deal out of \u201cball and chain\u201d legacy contracts that were costing the public sector money without delivering in return. So, it was a surprise to see him then turn around and talk passionately about the new deal with Google. What, I asked, is to stop the same thing happening again?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don’t lock people onto Google stack,\u201d said Hayete. \u201cI think what [Peter Kyle] was saying is, \u2018I’m working with a vendor that’s willing to work with us, but we [Google] will have to prove ourselves.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The lack of technical lock-in is a good thing. But, part of the Google-government announcement was a commitment to train and upskill 100,000 public sector workers on digital and AI skills by 2030. What about those people? Won\u2019t training them on Google technology create indirect lock-in?<\/p>\n
There are two tracks public sector workers can take in this training, Hayete explained. The first is a generic set of training that simply educates people about AI, cybersecurity and digital. The second allows people to choose a specialisation; this track operates on Google Cloud.<\/p>\n
The main point of the programme is to “build that digital literacy\u201d, which \u201chas nothing to do with the [Google Cloud] platform.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayete added, “Most of the skilling, I think, that is being envisioned is just employees who are trying to get literate in AI [and] in digital.\u201d<\/p>\n
You may have noticed that this isn\u2019t an outright denial of the theory that this programme will create indirect lock-in. While the majority of people may only follow the generic training, it\u2019s reasonable to assume that technical employees will opt to choose a specialisation using Google Cloud.<\/p>\n
Hayete says the training is part of Google\u2019s \u201cresponsibility to drive the [tech] ecosystem,\u201d in the same way the company created an agent-to-agent protocol.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, [that] will help our customers being able to actually deploy those multi-agent experiences. You give on one side, you get in the longer run… Like skilling: if you want the technology to be adopted, you need to make sure everybody can participate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The partnership between government and Google raised eyebrows when it was announced last week. While these answers will soothe industry concerns, some of the responses still lack clarity \u2013 and that\u2019s not what you want in government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google offers the key, but holds the door Image: Hayete Gallot, president of customer experience at Google Cloud,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1336,59,844,1337,57,58,50,1338,56,735,54,55],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-data","tag-gb","tag-google","tag-google-cloud","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-skills","tag-uk","tag-uk-government","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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