In addition to Scam Detection, Google is also enhancing Google Play Protect, which works in real-time to protect users from malicious or unsafe apps. It does this by analyzing behavioral signals related to the use of sensitive permissions and interactions with other apps and services. If a harmful app is found, users will receive a real-time alert, allowing them to take immediate action to protect their device. This protection also happens on the device in a privacy-preserving way through Private Compute Core, which allows Google to protect users without collecting data.
Key takeaways:
- Google is introducing new real-time and AI-powered protections for Pixel users to combat the increasing threat of scams and frauds, which cost victims upwards of $1 trillion every year.
- The first of these protections, Scam Detection, uses AI to notify users of potential scam calls in real-time by detecting conversation patterns associated with fraudulent calls.
- Scam Detection has been designed with user privacy in mind, with all detection model and processing fully on-device, ensuring no conversation audio or transcription is stored on the device or sent to Google servers.
- Google Play Protect works in real-time to protect users from malicious or unsafe apps by analyzing behavioral signals related to the use of sensitive permissions and interactions with other apps and services, with harmful apps triggering a real-time alert.