Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn

The report covers Google’s I/O demo of an Android feature using Gemini Nano to scan phone calls for scam patterns and the swift backlash from privacy and security experts, who warn that client-side scanning infrastructure could be repurposed for censorship, surveillance, and legislative abuse, citing EU message-scanning proposals and risks of function creep; Google provided no technical details and did not respond to privacy concerns at press time.