Android Strengthens Scam Defenses for Calls and Texts - CNET
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Google is launching new Android security features, including built-in protections for Google Messages and call forwarding, to block scams before they happen. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said it’s using its AI technology to offer some of these protections and is already flagging 5 million suspected scam calls and texts every month in its Phone and Google Messages apps.
The scam-detection updates include:
- An optional setting for Google Messages that enables an enhanced protection mode.This uses AI computing power, which Google says is handled privately with encryption on its servers, and can evaluate more of the message content to “understand a scammer’s intent more quickly when you’re in a conversation with an unknown sender.” It will also...
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