Signing in with your Google account across different services means that many sites and apps will have access to your account information. Since this is inherently risky, take these precautions to ...

Recovering your accounts only adds to the stress, so Google wants to make it less frustrating to recover one of your most important logins. New features launched this week bring two new options to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gmail is — and has been for years — one of the most popular free email services, with around two billion active users around the ...

Update, August 5, 2025: This story, originally published on August 3, has been updated with further mitigation advice as well as a new report regarding phishing and credential theft trends as Google ...

The future of authentication is coming with the use of Google passkeys to substitute conventional passwords with biometric authentication, which is safer and more convenient. This breakthrough ...

Take control of your privacy by updating these critical Google account settings: pause Web & App Activity, disable Search and Ad Personalization, pause Timeline, review and remove third-party app ...

Google is rolling out two new ways to recover your account after you lose access. “Recovery Contacts” lets you pick trusted friends and family to verify your identity. Users will soon be able to use ...

The Recovery Contacts feature allows you to designate someone who can verify your identity to regain account access. The Recovery Contacts feature allows you to designate someone who can verify your ...

When you sign up for a Google Account and use Google’s apps and services, you consent to data collection. While most of this data collection is justified, as it helps Google personalize your user ...