We’re bringing built-in protections to more kids and teens, and equipping parents with additional tools to support safer experiences.
Today at I/O 2023, we’re sharing the newest ways we’re keeping you safer with Google.
For Safer Internet Day, we take a look at some of the ways we keep more people safe online than anyone else in the world.
Cybersecurity requires continual vigilance, whether it's using built-in protections, or providing resources for changing security threats. In acknowledgement of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we wanted to share our progress across a number of security efforts, and announce a few new technologies that help us keep more people safe online than anyone else.
In the past year, we’ve worked on various security upgrades, from making sign-ins easier and more secure, to spreading awareness of specific threats. Recently, we shared our experiences from the last decade of building a world-class security operation with a behind the scenes look at our elite security teams in the new HACKING GOOGLE docuseries. Now, we’re building on our work by providing educational resources.
Today, we’re officially launching the online safety lessons we announced earlier this year. The lessons feature Khan Academy founder, Sal Khan, and Google security experts, giving actionable tips to help keep your online accounts secure, browse the web safely, detect phishing attempts and more. Whether you’re a professional, parent, grandparent or student, these videos — and Khan Academy's Internet Safety course — will help you stay safer even as new security risks emerge online.
For years, we’ve been at the forefront of improvements to authentication technology, and earlier this year we shared the progress we’ve made on our Google Password Manager in Android and Chrome, and how we’re accelerating industry-wide progress toward a passwordless future. Today, we’re announcing the next stage in this journey with the release of passkey support for developers on Android and Chrome. General availability for everyone using Android 9 and higher will follow later in November. This is a critical step in the wide adoption of passkeys, which will work with your Google Password Manager to further simplify sign-ins across devices, websites and applications — no matter the platform. The best part? Instead of typing a password, you can sign in with whatever method you usually use to unlock your phone (passcode, fingerprint, facial recognition, etc.).
With the U.S. midterm elections quickly approaching, we’re continuing to protect high-risk users, like journalists and campaigns, through our security tools and partnerships. Our Campaign Security Project with Defending Digital Campaigns provides organizations across the political spectrum with tools and resources to train candidates and campaign workers on how to stay safe online. To date, the program has trained over 5,300 election-related stakeholders over the course of 52 training sessions and workshops around the country — allowing us to better protect these high-risk individuals amid a changing threat landscape.
We’re also continuing to help protect democracies on a global scale by collaborating with leading organizations like the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). This collaboration helps high-risk users enhance their cybersecurity with the Advanced Protection Program (APP), our strongest form of account security for those at risk of state sponsored attacks. We’ve also continued to donateGoogle Titan Security Keys to high-risk organizations and individuals, which can be used as a form of 2-Step Verification (2SV) for advanced account security.
For security to be effective, it has to be easy, which is why most of our protections are built-in and automatic. For example, Google Play Protect provides automatic, daily malware scanning on all the apps on your Android device, even when you're offline. And our 2-Step Verification (2SV) requires just one tap to create secure, verified access to your account. Now Google is making it even easier to enroll in 2SV and get security notifications:
We build our products with your privacy and security in mind. That’s why our latest Nest cameras and doorbells are designed for your security: They use encrypted video, 2SV, and the enhanced security of your Google Account. And today, we’re announcing that if you have a Pixel 4 or more recent model that uses Android 12 or above, your mobile traffic on the Google Fi cellular network is automatically encrypted and private.
As we continue into Cybersecurity Awareness Month, stay tuned for more updates — from keeping the upcoming elections safer, to moving us further into a passwordless world. Visit our Safety Center to stay up to date and learn more about how we’re making every day safer with Google.
Protecting our users’ privacy and securing their data is core to Google’s work. That’s why we design products to help people keep their personal information private, safe, and secure — with easy-to-use tools and built-in protections.
Privacy matters to people — especially around topics such as their health. Given that these issues apply to healthcare providers, telecommunications companies, banks, tech platforms, and many more, we know privacy protections cannot be solely up to individual companies or states acting individually. That’s why we’ve long advocated for a comprehensive and nationwide U.S. privacy law that guarantees protections for everyone, and we’re pleased to see recent progress in Congress.
But we haven’t waited for a law to take action. We understand that people rely on Google to keep their personal data secure. We’ve long been committed to this work, and today we're sharing additional steps we're taking to protect user privacy around health issues.
We offer a variety of easy-to-use privacy tools and settings that put people in control of their data. This is particularly important to people around health topics, which is why our data policies include a number of restrictions. In addition, we have protections around:
We’re committed to delivering robust privacy protections for people who use our products, and we will continue to look for new ways to strengthen and improve these protections. We support Congressional efforts to reach bipartisan agreement on nationwide privacy protections that move the burden of privacy off individuals and establish good data practices across the board. In the meantime, we will continue our focus on securing our products and protecting the privacy of our users around the world.
Protecting our users’ privacy and securing their data is core to Google’s work. That’s why we design products to help people keep their personal information private, safe, and secure — with easy-to-use tools and built-in protections.
Privacy matters to people — especially around topics such as their health. Given that these issues apply to healthcare providers, telecommunications companies, banks, tech platforms, and many more, we know privacy protections cannot be solely up to individual companies or states acting individually. That’s why we’ve long advocated for a comprehensive and nationwide U.S. privacy law that guarantees protections for everyone, and we’re pleased to see recent progress in Congress.
But we haven’t waited for a law to take action. We understand that people rely on Google to keep their personal data secure. We’ve long been committed to this work, and today we're sharing additional steps we're taking to protect user privacy around health issues.
We offer a variety of easy-to-use privacy tools and settings that put people in control of their data. This is particularly important to people around health topics, which is why our data policies include a number of restrictions. In addition, we have protections around:
We’re committed to delivering robust privacy protections for people who use our products, and we will continue to look for new ways to strengthen and improve these protections. We support Congressional efforts to reach bipartisan agreement on nationwide privacy protections that move the burden of privacy off individuals and establish good data practices across the board. In the meantime, we will continue our focus on securing our products and protecting the privacy of our users around the world.
Every day, we work to create a safer internet by making our products secure by default, private by design, and putting you in control of your data. This is how we keep more people safe online than anyone else in the world.
Today, more cyberattacks than ever are happening on a broader, global scale. The targets of these attacks are not just major companies or government agencies, but hospitals, energy providers, banks, schools and individuals. Every day, we keep people’s data safe and secure through industry-leading security technology, automatic, built-in protections, and ongoing vulnerability research and detection.
Our specialized teams work around the clock to combat current and emerging cyber threats. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), for example, has been tracking critical cyber activity to help inform Ukraine, neighboring countries in Europe, and others of active threat campaigns in relation to the war. We’ve also expanded our support for Project Shield to protect the websites of 200+ Ukrainian government entities, news outlets and more.
Cybersecurity concerns are not limited to war zones — more than 80% of Americans say they’re concerned about the safety and privacy of their online data. That’s why we built one of the world’s most advanced security infrastructures to ensure that our products are secure by default. Now, that infrastructure helps keep people safer at scale:
We’re committed to designing products that are helpful and protect people’s privacy. Our engineers have pioneered and open-sourced numerous privacy preserving technologies, including Federated Learning and Differential Privacy, which we made more widely available earlier this year when we started offering our Differential Privacy library in Python as a free open-source tool — reaching almost half of developers worldwide.
Now, we’re expanding this work with the introduction of Protected Computing, a growing toolkit of technologies that transform how, when, and where data is processed to technically ensure the privacy and safety of your data. We do this by:
Today, Protected Computing enables helpful features like Smart Reply in Messages by Google and Live Translation on Pixel. And while we’re continuing to innovate new applications across our products, we’re equally focused on using Protected Computing to unlock the potential of data to benefit society more broadly — for example, by enabling even more robust aggregated and anonymized datasets so we can safely do everything from help cities reduce their carbon footprint, to accelerate new medical breakthroughs.
Privacy is personal, and safety is a bit different for each individual. That’s why our privacy and security protections are easy to access, monitor and control. Today, we’re introducing two new tools that give you even more control over your data:
To learn more about how every day you're safer with Google, visit our Safety Center.
Keeping you safer online is at the heart of everything we do. On Safer Internet Day, we’re sharing updates on this work and some significant new partnerships. We’re also announcing our strongest protections to date for high risk users and groups, and new enhanced browsing security for everyone.
We’re partnering with Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization, to develop free, online lessons that will help teach people how to stay safe online. We’ll contribute $5 million so that Khan Academy can create accessible, easy to understand and actionable online safety content for its 18 million monthly users around the globe. Last year alone, searches for “how to stop identity theft" spiked over 110%, so we know people are looking for tips on how to protect themselves online. Our previous work in educating people about online safety has shown us the positive impact this can have. To expand our impact, we’re excited to be partnering with Khan Academy to make internet safety more accessible for everyone.
We provide easy, simple-to-use tools like Security Checkup to give you actionable recommendations on how to strengthen the security of your Google Account. In 2021, people took more than 1.5 billion Security Checkups, and we hope to see that number grow in 2022. In 2021, we enrolled over 150 million people in two-step verification (2SV). As a result of this effort, we have seen a 50% decrease in accounts being compromised.
Today we are announcing:
You should have control over your data. That’s why we build tools like Privacy Checkup that put you in the driver’s seat with helpful reminders of what activity is being saved, which third-party apps have permission to access your data, and the option to adjust your settings accordingly with simple controls.
We’re also introducing new product features, and expanding current ones, to give you more control and keep you safe online:
Safer Internet Day might come around once a year, but here at Google we want you to stay safe online every day. Visit our Safety Center to learn all the ways we’re making every day safer with Google.
Every day, we focus on making sure you’re in control of your data by building products that are secure by default and private by design. At this year’s I/O, we’re introducing new features and technologies to keep you safer with Google.
Privacy is personal. That's why we make it easy for you to choose thesettings that are right for you — whether that’s one place to manage settings in your Google Account, Auto-Delete options, or controls that appear in context when you’re using our products. We announced a number of new controls today:
We’re also introducing new, industry-leading transparency and permission features on Android 12. The new OS includes a Privacy Dashboard where you will see a timeline of when apps accessed your camera, microphone, or device location. We’ve also added indicators that show when your camera or microphone are in use, as well as easy toggles to disable access to both across your device. And you can now choose to share your approximate location with an app instead of a precise one.
One of the biggest security risks is still the continued reliance on passwords — they’re often easy to crack, used across multiple sites, or stolen in phishing attacks. That’s why we’ve been working towards a password-free future — focusing on safer ways to authenticate your identity and building multiple layers of protection into your Google Account, like automatic enrollment in 2-step verification.
But because passwords are still required for most online accounts, we’ve also continued to improve our Password Manager, built directly into Chrome, Android and now iOS, to help you create, remember, save and auto-fill passwords across the web. Today, we announced new enhancements to Password Manager:
Now, we’re continuing that work with Android's Private Compute Core, which keeps your information safe and private for a number of popular AI-driven features like Live Caption (which displays captions based on audio), Now Playing (which tells you the song that’s playing) and Smart Reply (which suggests short responses to messages and emails). For these features, the audio and language processing happens exclusively on your device. Like the rest of Android, Private Compute Core is open source — it’s fully inspectable and verifiable by the security community.
We’ll continue our work to make every day safer with Google with new controls, advanced security, and privacy-preserving technologies.
Every day, we focus on making sure you’re in control of your data by building products that are secure by default and private by design. At this year’s I/O, we’re introducing new features and technologies to keep you safer with Google.
Privacy is personal. That's why we make it easy for you to choose thesettings that are right for you — whether that’s one place to manage settings in your Google Account, Auto-Delete options, or controls that appear in context when you’re using our products. We announced a number of new controls today:
We’re also introducing new, industry-leading transparency and permission features on Android 12. The new OS includes a Privacy Dashboard where you will see a timeline of when apps accessed your camera, microphone, or device location. We’ve also added indicators that show when your camera or microphone are in use, as well as easy toggles to disable access to both across your device. And you can now choose to share your approximate location with an app instead of a precise one.
One of the biggest security risks is still the continued reliance on passwords — they’re often easy to crack, used across multiple sites, or stolen in phishing attacks. That’s why we’ve been working towards a password-free future — focusing on safer ways to authenticate your identity and building multiple layers of protection into your Google Account, like automatic enrollment in 2-step verification.
But because passwords are still required for most online accounts, we’ve also continued to improve our Password Manager, built directly into Chrome, Android and now iOS, to help you create, remember, save and auto-fill passwords across the web. Today, we announced new enhancements to Password Manager:
Now, we’re continuing that work with Android's Private Compute Core, which keeps your information safe and private for a number of popular AI-driven features like Live Caption (which displays captions based on audio), Now Playing (which tells you the song that’s playing) and Smart Reply (which suggests short responses to messages and emails). For these features, the audio and language processing happens exclusively on your device. Like the rest of Android, Private Compute Core is open source — it’s fully inspectable and verifiable by the security community.
We’ll continue our work to make every day safer with Google with new controls, advanced security, and privacy-preserving technologies.
