German intelligence services want to use Google's service to exchange information The German Federal Intelligence Service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Military Counterintelligence Service want to use a Google-based cloud system to exchange classified information, according to an investigation conducted by the television channels NDR and WDR. It is now technically very difficult for the intelligence agencies to exchange such data. The storage will be based on Google's distributed cloud product, isolated from the Internet (in the air). The data will be stored in Germany, and Google will not have access to it, journalists say. According to insiders, the cost of the project will be at least 500 million euros. Google's product choice clearly contradicts recent statements by security officials about the need for German digital sovereignty, Tagshaw states. To strengthen "technical sustainability", "European solutions are particularly interesting", the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution responded to a request from journalists.