- Google Beta messages finally adds confidential content warnings for some
- The live location also made fun of a code in the application
- It is not known when the characteristics will be extended to all.
Google messages are configured to receive a couple of new tools so that the service is more useful and safer to use. And we are excited to try both once they have launched.
The first is that Google appears configured to add sharing live location to its application. That is according to the recent disassembly of Android Authority APK.
You can currently share your location with another person through Google Maps, but send information as a static Google Maps pin. If you move, you must send your location again, which can make it meet while it is outside and on a challenge.
However, that seems to change, since a single chain that refers to “live_location_sharing_shortcut” was discovered in the last Beta Code.
For now, the function is not live, but the chain suggests that Google is probably experiencing with the live location sharing behind the scene and could be preparing to launch the function in a future beta.
As always, there is the possibility that Google never throws the exchange of live locations, but we hope you do it, and sooner rather than later, given how useful it can be.
Incoming sensitive content warnings
The other update is one that was announced in February, but finally seems to be live for some through the last beta messages: new warnings of confidential content (through 9to5google).
They will appear if a Google user sends or receives naked images (if you have the activated configuration), although for adults, it goes out default. Meanwhile, the accounts owned by people under 18 will have the function on by default.
Supervised accounts cannot turn off the warnings (although parents can control the configuration through the family link application), while non -supervised adolescents (users from 13 to 17 years old) can turn off the warnings in the configuration of their Google account if you wish.
To change your configuration, you will want to open Google messages on your Android device, touch your profile picture and then touch the messages. Move down to find protection and safety, then manage warnings of confidential content and then alternate the warnings in Google’s messages or deactivated.
Google says that these warnings are managed by AI on the device (so the function “does not send identifiable data or any of the contents or results classified to Google servers”).
If the Android system seguste behind the function believes that the image could contain naked, some things happen.
First, if the sender has the function, they will be warned about the risks of sending naked images before you are asked to confirm if they really want to send it. Similar warnings and confirmations will appear if you are trying to share a naked image with another person.
The receiver (if you have content warnings) will see a blurred image, warns how the naked images can be harmful, you will have the option to remove the image before seeing it, the opportunity to block the number that sent the image and the option to see the image if you wish.
Since the function finally begins to appear, it should not spend much time before we can trust these content warnings with AI to help us stay safer online.
