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Google Launches Safety Charter to Combat Digital Fraud in India

It harnesses AI-driven detection to block over 500 million scam texts each month.

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Google’s Project Zero is using AI to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in popular software

Overview

  • Unveiled at the Safer with Google India Summit, the Safety Charter targets online scams, enterprise and infrastructure cybersecurity, and responsible AI development.
  • Google Messages now blocks more than 500 million scam texts each month and Google Pay issues over 41 million fraud warnings to users.
  • The company opened its fourth security engineering center in India to collaborate with government agencies, academia and small businesses on local cybersecurity solutions.
  • Google.org pledged $20 million to expand the Asia-Pacific Cybersecurity Fund and Google partnered with the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre to raise cybercrime awareness.
  • Partnerships with IIT-Madras aim to advance post-quantum cryptography as Google develops frameworks to prevent misuse of its Gemini AI models.