Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

Here we go again. A new furor after Google’s decision to allow Gmail users to change their original email addresses for something less embarrassing or more age appropriate. But this long-awaited ...

Over the past three years, I’ve changed email providers three times without ever changing email addresses. That’s because my address is entirely under my control. Instead of relying on an email that ...

Demands for Apple customer records by federal agents in recent months underscore the privacy limitations of email.

Apple's "Hide My Email" feature lets you create fake email addresses that keep your real email private. You can use Hide My Email when signing up for new services with your Apple ID or when sending ...