Editor’s Note: Please see the update below. I’m a big believer in offering protections for personal privacy online, but Google’s decision to force all Gmail subscribers to use HTTPS encryption goes ...

Citing the need to protect users from government cyber-spying, Google has tightened Gmail’s encryption screws by removing the option to turn off HTTPS. Google first gave people the option of ...

At the risk of inconveniencing some users, Google has moved its Gmail to a more secure protocol. The timing of the action is seen as a response to Chinese hacking attempts against the online mail ...

It finally happened: After years of accumulating messages in my Gmail account, I used up my 15GB of free storage. I'd had my account since 2008, and I didn't want to spend hours sifting through those ...