Google has a fairly effective spam identifier and filter in its app Phone to prevent these types of calls from arriving, either with unwanted advertising or scam attempts. Protection against the latter is now improved with a new function that the company has just launched. launch on your mobiles Pixel and will soon reach more Android devices: Scam Detection.
This function, which was already advanced at the last Google developers conference in May, complements the preventive task of the previous one, allows you to identify a telephone scam in real time and alerts the user so you can decide if you want to continue the call or hang up.
Google points out in a blog post that telephone scams are increasingly sophisticated and difficult to detect, which is why they have turned to artificial intelligence ‘to identify and stop scams before they can do harm.’
So, Scam detection use the model Gemini Nano to detect conversation patterns commonly associated with scams. ‘For example, if a caller claims to be from your bank and asks you to urgently transfer funds due to an alleged account breach, Scam Detection will process the call to determine if it is likely to be spam and, if so, may provide an audio and haptic alert and a visual warning that the call may be a scam,’ explains the company.
Gemini Nano is, within the family of artificial intelligence models Geminithe lightest and the one that can be run locally on some deviceswithout needing to connect to the cloud to perform processing. For this reason, Google highlights the privacy provided by its use and guarantees that the data does not leave it. ‘The sensing model and AI processing are completely on-device, meaning The audio or transcription of the conversation is not stored there, nor is it sent to Google servers or anywhere else, nor can it be retrieved after the call.‘ says Google.
Scam detection is available in the United States for mobile phones Pixel from Google, from Pixel 6 to the last generation, Pixel 9but ‘soon coming to more Android devices’. Initially, it only supports the English language. The feature is disabled by default and can be set only for certain calls.
Live threat detection
Along with Scam Detection, Google has also announced the launch of a new Google Play Protect, Live threat detection. It is available from Pixel 6 onwards ‘and will reach other phone manufacturers in the coming months’.
Live threat detection Monitors interactions with apps and services and their use of permissions granted by the user. This way you can identify malicious applications that have been successful in passing the security checks. Google Play and those that remain inactive for a long time before starting malicious activity. Initially, it will focus on applications of stalkerwarethose that are dedicated to collecting user data without their consent. Subsequentlywill be expanded to other types of harmful applications. Google ensures that this new feature does not collect user data.