Hong Kong: Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said reports that the US government spied on the Internet giant’s data centres were “outrageous” and potentially illegal if proved true, in an interview on Monday.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal during a visit to Hong Kong, the technology guru said that Google had filed complaints with the NSA, US President Bar-ack Obama, as well as members of the US Congress.

“It's really outrageous that the NSA was looking between the Google data centres if that’s true. The steps that the organisation was willing to do without good judgement to pursue its mission and potentially violate people's privacy, it's not OK,” Mr Schmidt said.

Meanwhile, Indonesia on Monday backed a UN text highlighting anger at US-led data snooping, as Australian websites came under cyber attack in protest at Canberra's reported involvement in the surveillance network.

Jakarta said it would co-sponsor the draft resolution at the UN General Assembly following rep-orts that the US and Australian missions in the Indonesian capital collected data as part of the American-led spying efforts.

“Enough is enough,” Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa said. “The recent revelations will have a potentially damaging impact in terms of the trust and confidence between countries concerned.”

Reportedly, India was approached by Brazil to support the UN resolution on spying.