US EditionGoogle’s latest Android tools will protect you from a wider range of scams
- Google announced on Tuesday a new Advanced Protection mode for Android 16 designed to enhance device-level security against scams and attacks.
- This update builds on existing Advanced Protection features that restrict app permissions, block 2G networks, and use on-device AI to reduce risks from untrusted sources.
- The mode includes hardware security like Memory Tagging Extension and an audit log system storing encrypted logs in the cloud, which users can share with experts for intrusion detection.
- Google expanded AI-powered scam detection in Messages and Phone apps to cover package, job, crypto, and financial impersonation scams, with new in-call protections launching first in the UK.
- These enhancements aim to protect vulnerable users such as journalists and activists by adding new security layers while maintaining usability and alerting users to potential threats.
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Google's Android 16 Takes Aim at Phone and Text Scams
Google yanked the wraps off plans to imbue Android 16, the upcoming release of the mobile operating system slated for a June release, with a slew of guardrails and protections to frustrate common phone- and text-based scams. What strikes me as most interesting is that these protections are aimed at safeguarding users against social engineering, in which a scammer uses not hacking skills to access what they shouldn’t, but rather a manipulative se…
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