The encryption genie is out of its bottle to give people back their privacy, but this is frightening world governments, writes Alistair Fairweather.

People sending emails to Google’s Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that it will be confidential, says the company in a court filing.

An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit hoping to derail Google’s plan to merge user data from YouTube, Gmail and Google Plus in individual profiles.

Google has become a "political tool" vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper has said of Google’s hacking attack claims.

The Chinese military has accused the United States of launching a global "internet war" to bring down Arab and other governments.

Apple answers the iPad’s critics and Gmail digs deep to rescue lost files.

Facebook, which has more than double the active users of Gmail, is taking Google’s email giant on at its own game.

By being savvier about how we purchase our telecommunication data we can control our costs and put less money into the pockets of telecommunication.