You cannot be a employee of Google and "100% unrelated to this project". I understand you're not involved with it directly but you've obviously bought into the company, their mission and their methods.
As far as tinfoil hats (thanks for the assumption that anyone skeptical of Google's intentions is a crackpot) if this was not a net gain for them and merely a feature for enterprise compliance, why are they turning it on fit all Google apps clients by default? Under your charitable scenario they could offer it to those who need it without impacting us crazies.
That's close enough, in big company dynamics being in an unrelated arm can be farther away than some members of the public. Feels like a nit.
I didn't imply every skeptic was donning tinfoil, but I saw a couple claims here and elsewhere in that range.
The default setting is to allow e-mails to be sent confidentially, not to actually send them confidentially. Seems like a typical default. Here's a new feature, by default you're allowed to use it unless domain admins want to disable it.
As far as tinfoil hats (thanks for the assumption that anyone skeptical of Google's intentions is a crackpot) if this was not a net gain for them and merely a feature for enterprise compliance, why are they turning it on fit all Google apps clients by default? Under your charitable scenario they could offer it to those who need it without impacting us crazies.