Google has partnered with Thales to expand support for the privacy and confidentiality capabilities of Google Workspace. Thales, a French company providing services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets, has announced its CipherTrust Manager console and SafeNet Trusted Access solution have been integrated with Google Workspace client-side encryption, which is a new privacy and confidentiality offering for Google Workspace users. Google says this will provide better key management capabilities and identity protection, and that customers can benefit from improved regulatory compliance and data ownership by allowing them to maintain ownership of keys used to encrypt Google Workspace documents.