Google to expand encryption options in Meet, will bring Meet videos into Docs

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Google on Wednesday announced its latest round of updates to Workspace, its productivity and collaboration platform, including expanded encryption options for Google Meet videos. Additionally, Google is also to let customers directly integrate Meet videos into Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. This integration will let users see their collaborators -- plus the documents they're collaborating on -- all under one tab. 

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Google started quickly rolling out a number of new and improved features to its collaboration tools a couple of years ago when the Covid-19 pandemic made virtual work an imperative. Since then, Google has also stepped up efforts to integrate all of its tools. 

With all of its communication and collaboration products integrated into one suite, "we're of course making major bets on Google Docs and Google Sheets as storage vehicles for all sorts of things," Google's Dave Citron said to reporters this week. "We're able to store all the artefacts from a meeting using Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc. All of it gets magically indexed by the Workspace search engine, so you'll be able to search across all of it in one seamless way."

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