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Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations (security.googleblog.com)
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More than half of Americans reported receiving at least one scam call per day in 2024. To combat the rise of sophisticated conversational scams that deceive victims over the course of a phone call, we introduced Scam Detection late last year to U.S.-based English-speaking Phone by Google public beta users on Pixel phones.

We use AI models processed on-device to analyze conversations in real-time and warn users of potential scams. If a caller, for example, tries to get you to provide payment via gift cards to complete a delivery, Scam Detection will alert you through audio and haptic notifications and display a warning on your phone that the call may be a scam.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So, wait, Google can record calls, but we can't?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Member when they sucked up everyone’s wifi passwords and the world was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] user91@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WiFi passwords? I think you mean SSIDs (wifi name).

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

No they slurped up the pw’s too back in the day. Before WEP2? I forget.

Hm. The intertubes tells me it was unencrypted data. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-wifi-street-cars-spy-lawsuit-settlement,39998.html

Oh. Right. It collected unencrypted (i.e. email) passwords. Allll niiiice and legal, probably. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/google-says-collecting-data-unencrypted-wifi-networks-isnt-illegal

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They calls are not recorded, are they? They are transcribed live.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's effectively the same thing.

Whether or not the recording is kept or not, it's using the same function.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

If that counts as recording then all phone calls are recorded by your microphone, in order to send the sound to the other party.