Google is using AI to block millions of harmful apps, crush scam tactics, and strengthen Play Protect, making Android safer.

The tools use Google's large-scale indexing systems to spot sensitive data, but they involve a key trade-off: users must share partial personal information so Google can ...

Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user ...

Google launched a "Results about you" privacy and security feature for Google Search a few years ago, a tool that lets you request the removal of personal data from search results, which can come in ...

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Speaking about the rise of AI in daily life, Harsh Varshney, who has worked on Google's privacy and Chrome AI security teams, said, "AI models use data to generate helpful responses,” reported ...

Google has announced the general availability of its Gemini artificial intelligence models on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), making its generative AI product available on enterprise and government ...

Google had to remove significantly fewer malicious programs from the Play Store in 2025 – a success of intensified security ...