The future of media sanitization at Google
At Google, protecting your data is our most important responsibility, and we are committed to keeping your data safe. To further this commitment, we are proud to announce that starting in November 2025, we will start transitioning our approach to media sanitization to fully rely on a robust and layered encryption strategy. This marks a move away from the "brute force disk erase" process we have used for nearly two decades. While overwriting data has been an effective method, the storage technology landscape has changed dramatically. This process is no longer sustainable due to the size and technological complexity of [...]