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NEW DELHI: Internet titan Google has announced that it will provide free unlimited cloud storage to students, and will also allow them to upload individual files up to 5TB in size. This will be rolled out in "coming weeks," Google said.

The free Google Drive storage will be available to students whose schools are part of the Apps for Education programme. users will be able to access their data via internet-connected smartphones, tablets, Chromebooks etc.

Ben Schrom, the product manager for Google Apps for Education, said in a blog post, "Every file uploaded to Google Drive is encrypted, not only from your device to Google and in transit between Google data centers, but also at rest on Google servers. Classroom, which recently launched to Google Apps for Education users, makes using Drive in school even better by automatically organizing all Classroom assignments into Drive folders."

Non-profit educational institutions that are part of the Google Apps for Education initiative are exempted from ad-related scanning of data. Therefore, Google will not scan the data uploaded by students of these institutions to Drive will not be targeted for advertisements.

Google also will release its Apps Vault (a solution for search and discovery for compliance needs) for Apps to Education customers by year-end. Tools to track the activity of files are also on the way, the company said.