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.

  • Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    13 hours ago

    As is stated, the call is processed locally in the user’s device. If that holds true, there is no recording and no third party processing going on. Your point does not make sense.

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      10 hours ago

      The person owning the phone where the processing takes place, is the processor of the data in this case. That still requires consent from the data subject per gdpr.

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        10 hours ago

        No, that’s ridiculous.

        This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: […] © by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity;

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          9 hours ago

          Fair, I was not aware of that exception. It does seem to cover this case, assuming Google is actually not sending any data outside of the phone, use it for further training etc.