"Google providing the NSA direct access to servers" [Citation needed] The NSA appears to have tapped 3rd party fiber links, and not Google directly. Google is

"Google providing the NSA direct access to servers" [Citation needed] The NSA appears to have tapped 3rd party fiber links, and not Google directly. Google is now encrypting data across those links, moving all client access to use https, and advocating for http/2.0 (based on SPDY) to allow only encrypted connections.