Your phone's been doing all of this for years. You just kept downloading apps for it anyway.

Android keeps a record of every privacy permission you've granted. A pair of built-in tools let you see what each app can access and revoke whatever you want.

Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” to ensure whoever’s calling you is who they appear to be.

As a part of Google's pre-I/O Android Show from a few weeks back, they showed off several upcoming features that were a lock ...