If you haven’t changed your passwords for a while, or use the same one across several services, now’s a good time to fix that, writes Juha Saarinen.

The article by Liam Dann in the Herald on August 25, "TV war not so fierce in real world", caught my eye.

Google has begun scouring the email accounts of its users so it can warn the police of child abusers.

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley may serve an injunction on Google over the continued publication of images of him taken at an orgy.

Google has announced a surprising end to its controversial "Real Name" policy with a contrite post on Google+, telling users that there are "no more restrictions" on the names people can use.

Google's new Project Zero team adds some welcome muscle in the fight against cybercrime and could also lead to better privacy for all, making it harder for intelligence agencies to spy.

There's an accepted piece of wisdom which says if people know who we are on the internet, we'll behave ourselves.

Landing top talent is getting so tough in Silicon Valley that tech companies are trying anything for an edge, including hiring interns out of high school and boosting their perks.

Google, once boastful that it was the leading defender of a free and open Internet, has gone into the shadows.

In the pervasively connected world of the 21st century, creating and sharing knowledge has never been easier. But the fact remains that many people still lack the skills required to access this information and an inequity gap is growing.

Google has been accused of misinterpreting a European court's "right to be forgotten" ruling by deleting links to apparently harmless news articles in a bid to whip up anger against "censorship".

Google have bolstered their presence in the cloud storage space with an industrial strength version of Google Drive aimed at business users.

Public bodies and private corporations including internet giant Google are flouting the public's right to access personal data being held on them.

Google's wearable computer prototype Google Glass will go on sale this week to all British residents over the age of 18.

Google Inc is paying more tax in New Zealand than previously but its $227,074 tax bill in 2013 isn't likely to stress a company with US$15.42 billion of revenue globally in the quarter ended March 31, 2014.

A study shows that women and girls are half as likely to be encouraged to go into computer science fields as men and boys are.

The EU has to rely on antitrust and privacy rules to curb Google's search-engine dominance and can't just break up the company, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.

A group of economists have issued a study with a startling conclusion: for a large, well-known brand, search ads are worthless.

Google Maps has changed the way we navigate and poked its cameras into our lives. Meet the geography fanatic who is the tech giant's mapping evangelist.

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos wants control of the smartphone home screen so he can put more of the firm's services in front of consumers.

Following Google's $500m acquisition of Skybox Imaging, Slate's Will Oremus looks into the scope of Google's future.

Tax breaks for Apple, Starbucks and Fiat are under investigation in a clampdown on special treatment for companies.

Google's opponents are lining up for a last chance to change the mind of the EU's antitrust chief as he edges toward a possible settlement with the owner of the world's biggest search engine.