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That smartphone in your pocket is home to your favorite apps, personal accounts, and sensitive data. That means your device should have the strongest security protection available to prevent the wrong people from stealing your money or information.
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For Android users, Google offers a variety of tools and technologies to defend you against scammers, malware, and other threats to your security and privacy. In a blog post published last month, the company spotlights the protections now available or coming soon and how they aim to keep you safe from the latest dangers. Here's the recap.
1. Protection against scam calls
First up is protection against scam phone calls. Savvy scammers can try to trick you into performing certain actions on your phone, such as changing default security settings or granting elevated permissions to a malicious app. To protect you, Google will warn you of such attempts and even block specific types of actions.
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Android's new in-call protections will try to prevent three types of actions:
Disabling Google Play Protect. Turned on by default, this built-in security protection constantly scans for malicious apps, whatever the source, and therefore should always be active.
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