They will listen to your conversations

In recent years, cyber threats have become a major concern for users as every click, call, SMS or email hides potential fraud that can lead to the theft of our personal and banking details.

For this reason, users, brands, and manufacturers alike have started working to stop these attacks and try to detect them before it is too late. For this, awareness of these types of hazards has increased, and at the same time, applications and devices increasingly offer more tools to help us detect the threat.

For example, now, when we receive a call from a suspicious number or we receive an SMS, in many cases our own Android phone warns us that it might be spam or some kind of scam.and there are even cases where this number has already been stated as such and it directly blocks it.

Despite this, cybercriminals are increasingly using more sophisticated methods that appear to be very real, which is why detection systems sometimes fail to detect potential fraud. And of course, not all advances in artificial intelligence are used to create text, images or anything else, and there are other uses for this technology.like our cybersecurity.

The company explained this during Google I/O, a developer conference, last week, where they showed New ability for your AI to eliminate spam calls. Calling has become one of the most common ways to scam users and that is why Google has introduced this AI tool to avoid it, although it has a drawback.

This is a new Android feature that alerts users on screen when one of the calls we receive is not trusted. The only problem is that in order to do this and prevent you from getting scammed, the A.I. Google should listen to our conversationsbecause the an algorithm to interpret if you ask us for any data that is compromised or unusual, and informs us of the risk associated with providing this information.

In other words, if, for example, they call us and say that they are our bank, and suddenly ask us to transfer all our savings to an account abroad.The AI ​​detects that something is wrong and alerts us that the behavior is suspected to be fraudulent.

It is true that this measure, although good news and very useful for our cyber security, has the disadvantage that you allow Google to listen to all your conversations, which is an insult to your privacy. For this reason, the company has left users with no choice but to maintain their privacy in exchange for being the target of phone scams, or to give up their privacy and be protected by Google’s detention systems.