The real intention behind this move is even worse: It completely negates the purpose of end-to-end encryption, since unencrypted backups can be easily accessed by governments or Google anytime.
The quota exception was so that people wouldn't be discouraged from backing up to Drive since it would no longer "cost" them any storage to do so.
Fun fact: Apple has effectively done an equivalent loophole by storing iCloud backups of your phone (including Messages) WITH the encryption key on their servers. So they have everything they need to read all your data.
The quota exception was so that people wouldn't be discouraged from backing up to Drive since it would no longer "cost" them any storage to do so.
Fun fact: Apple has effectively done an equivalent loophole by storing iCloud backups of your phone (including Messages) WITH the encryption key on their servers. So they have everything they need to read all your data.