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 ...

Update, March 8, 2025: This story, originally published March 7, has been updated with details of more data that Google has confirmed it will be deleting unless account holders take swift action to ...

Google is conducting a massive cull of inactive accounts on December 1st, giving users three days to act if they want to prevent their historical data from being deleted forever. The purge, which ...

When signed in to your Google account, your searches, clicked links, images, and videos are tracked. Things like your IP address, device, and which ads you click are tracked even when you're not ...

Google's apps, such as Chrome, Maps, Search, and YouTube, are constantly tracking your activity and sending it to Google. But don't worry, Google doesn't use the data for nefarious purposes like ...

Google is announcing new privacy and recovery tools to combat spam across multiple products related to Android, including suspicious link detection in messages, sign-in with phone number, and recovery ...

Deleting digital accounts that you rarely or never use not only reduces the amount of clutter in your online life—it keeps you safer too. Every extra account you've got is an extra target for a hacker ...

Google introduces new Gmail account recovery mode. Updated October 19 with a new lock screen recovery feature specifically for Android smartphone users, as well as a warning from Check Point Software ...

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Google fixes a bug that could have resulted in major private and security risks to users. It’s hard to say, considering that the most popular search engine in the world has about 99,000 search queries ...