The features will be available to users of Android phones version 10 or higher starting in July, according to the company.
By magazineeyn.com
Alphabet’s Google said it will begin testing an anti-theft feature for Android phones that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify when a phone has been stolen and lock the device’s screen.
In the initial testing phase in Brazil, three types of locks will be available. In one of them, Google will use the AI it created to help detect signs of “common movement associated with theft” and lock the screen.
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The second feature allows the user to lock the device’s screen remotely by entering the phone number and completing a security challenge from another device, Reuters reports.
The last mode is to automatically lock the screen if the device is left without Internet access for long periods.
The features will be available to users of Android phones version 10 or higher starting in July, according to the company. They will be rolled out to users in other countries gradually this year, Google said.
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Phone theft is a growing problem in Brazil. The number of stolen cell phones in Latin America’s largest economy grew 16.6% in 2022 from the previous year to almost 1 million, according to data from the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook 2023.
The Brazilian government launched an app in December called Celular Seguro, which allows users to report the theft of a phone and block access to it using another device that belongs to a trusted person.
As of last month, around 2 million people were registered on the app nationwide, while 50,000 phones had been blocked, according to the Ministry of Justice.
