Comcast said it would begin scrambling customers' email to protect it from prying eyes.

The move came just hours after Google called out email providers, including Comcast, for not using encryption. Google Tuesday publicized for the first time the share of its email traffic with other providers that remains encrypted. According to Google, fewer than 1% of Gmail messages sent to Comcast.net addresses remained encrypted on a sample day last month.

Because nothing says privacy like Google.

Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas said the company is testing encryption and would begin using it more broadly on customers' email "within a matter of weeks." He said Comcast is "very aggressive about this."