Google introduces two new AI-integrated real-time protection features that enhance your safety while safeguarding your privacy.
Scam Detection feature
Google offers Scam Detection in Phone to protect you from scams and fraud and Google Play Protect active protection with real-time alerts to protect you from malware and hazardous applications. These new security features are available first on Pixel and will soon roll out to more Android phones.
Google Play Protect operates around the clock to protect you from malware and other unsafe applications. Play Protect looks at such behavioral phenomena as the use of granted sensitive permissions and interaction with other apps & services.
Live Threat Detection feature
With live threat detection, if ever there is a dangerous app out on the market, you will receive an immediate notification on your app so you can remove it right away to safeguard your smartphone. Live threat detection techniques are now able to discover such apps by analyzing actual patterns of activity rather than based on static analysis of their code and behavior, given that these apps try especially hard to conceal it, or simply lie low for a while before resuming.
Live threat detection will be stalkerware, the code that may track or gather personal data, including personal identifiers, without the user’s permission. All of this protection occurs in a privacy-preserving manner through Private Compute Core which enables protecting users without data collection.
Google Play Protect received live threat detection with real-time alerts earlier available only for manufacturers that are producing Pixel 6+ devices and will soon be extended to other companies.