Google has introduced Scam Detection and Google Play Protect Live Threat Detection for Pixel users. The company’s official blog says these features are designed to enhance user safety while safeguarding privacy. Here’s all you need to know about these new Google security features for Android devices.
Google Enhances Android Security With Two New Security Features
With phone call scams on the rise, Google is harnessing the power of AI to detect scam calls in real time for the safety of Android users. Google says the Scam Detection feature has been designed to use AI to detect the conversation patterns commonly associated with fraudulent calls in real time.
To illustrate, if a scammer calls saying they are from a bank and requests to transfer funds immediately, the feature will analyse the conversation and warn users of the potential scam using audio, haptic alert, and a visual warning (pictured below).
Assuring users’ privacy, Google says the feature is off by default and users can turn it on from Settings if they want to. Moreover, the AI detection model and processing are completely on-device, which means no conversation audio or transcription is stored on the device, sent to Google servers, or anywhere else.
It is revealed that Gemini Nano powers the feature on the Pixel 9 series but it will also be available for Pixel 6 and newer models through other Google on-device machine learning models.
We know that Google already has the Play Protect feature to protect users from malicious apps on the Play Store. This feature analyses app behaviour and permission access to determine if an app is shady. Google has now added Live Threat Detection to detect malicious apps “that try extra hard to hide their behaviour or lie dormant for a time before engaging in suspicious activity.“
According to the official blog, the feature currently detects only stalkerware. These are codes designed to steal users’ personal information without consent. Google assures that the feature will be expanded to cover more malware in the coming days. The feature uses privacy-focused Private Compute Core to analyse data and is available for Pixel 6 and newer devices.
These features are rolling out to Pixel users first and will come to more Android devices soon.
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