The current access problems with Gmail add to a growing list of Google products that have been blocked or partly blocked in the country. Users can no longer access YouTube or Blogger. Google Maps ...

Lawmakers and experts alike have raised concerns that use of Signal and Gmail for official business may violate federal records-keeping laws.

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The outage appeared to his users at around 3 p.m. on Thursday, with DownDetector, a site that tracks online issues, citing nearly 5,000 reports within the hour.

Google said the Chinese government is responsible for the access problems. “There is no technical issue on our side. We have checked extensively,” said a Google spokesperson.

On Google’s Service Details page for Gmail, the company wrote at 4:29 p.m. ET that “we’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users.” ...

Amid the ongoing feud between Apple and the FBI, Google has improved the security of Gmail against government-backed attacks. Gmail will display a full-page warning for users that could be targets.