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Chrome guards against threats with safety checks and real-time detection.
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Maps gives you privacy with Incognito mode and location history settings.
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Gemini blocks harmful content and provides easy access to your privacy settings.
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Discover how we build products that protect your privacy.
Ads & Data
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Built-in Security
Learn how built-in security keeps your personal information safe.
Scams & Fraud
Explore how we protect you from online scams and fraud.
Security Tips
Discover tools and tips to help keep you safe online.
Authentication
Learn about safer ways to sign in to your online accounts.
Cybersecurity
See how we lead cybersecurity in our approach and societal impact.
AI
AI & Safety
Learn about how we are advancing AI safety with testing and standards.
Secure AI Framework
Learn about the core elements of our secure AI framework (SAIF).
Content
Content Safety
Learn about our protections against harmful and illegal content.
Product Protections
Learn more about Product Protections
Android
Android's ML-powered security guards against threats and protects privacy.
Gmail
Gmail blocks threats and keeps your messages encrypted.
Nest
Nest keeps your data private with built-in security and automatic updates.
Assistant
Assistant protects your privacy, and puts you in control of your data.
Google Fi Wireless
Google Fi Wireless protects your connection for calls, streaming, and browsing.
Photos
Photos keeps your memories safe with built-in security and privacy tools.
Chrome
Chrome guards against threats with safety checks and real-time detection.
Google One
Google One protects your expanded storage with industry-leading cloud security.
Pixel
Pixel keeps you safer both online and in the physical world.
Family Link
Family Link helps parents set digital boundaries for their families.
Google Pay
Google Pay protects your payments and keeps your personal information safe.
Search
Google Search encrypts your searches, protects your data, and blocks threats.
Google Health
Google Health protects your health and wellness data and provides easy-to-use privacy settings.
Maps
Maps gives you privacy with Incognito mode and location history settings.
YouTube
YouTube protects your data with privacy tools and personalized viewing controls.
Gemini
Gemini blocks harmful content and provides easy access to your privacy settings.
Meet
Meet makes video calls safer with encryption and smart meeting management tools.
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India
India is Safer With Google
GSEC India is Google's first Safety Engineering Center in Asia Pacific, part of our ongoing commitment to keep India Safer with Google. We build advanced safety solutions to protect users, businesses, and governments, uniting our global engineering strength with local expertise, academia, and industry for a safer digital India.
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Our approach to online
safety in India
At GSEC India, our teams drive innovation to build a safer Internet for everyone. We unite global expertise with local needs, collaborating with academics, policymakers, and industry to engineer solutions that protect and empower users, businesses, and governments in India.
Securing Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity for Tech Enablement in India
GSEC India is committed to building a cyber-resilient India. We provide security solutions for critical infrastructure, share threat intelligence, and enhance capacity building for government and enterprise. Our efforts include driving dialogue and strengthening strategic partnerships with government, industry leaders and academia to address the growing need for skilled professionals and user education across the nation. This empowers a stronger, more secure digital foundation for India.
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Combating Online Scams & Frauds
Google takes an industry-leading approach to combatting online scams, which harm users and undermine trust. Our teams combine strong policies with built-in technological protections to prevent, detect, and respond to harmful content at scale.
DigiKavach is Google’s holistic program to help keep Indians safe online.
It brings together technology, education & community efforts to tackle local online safety challenges across India.
We run ongoing user awareness initiatives to help people protect themselves from fraud and scams.
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Advancing AI Safely & Responsibly
GSEC India plays a significant role in ensuring AI’s transformative potential is developed responsibly. We advance our industry-leading SAIF framework, guiding security measures for AI-powered applications and model risk management. By forming and expanding the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) across APAC, we foster collaboration with industry-leading AI partners. Our focus is on building AI with safety at its core, ensuring content responsibility and positive societal impact.
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Meet the people behind
GSEC India.
The Google Safety Engineering Center team is made up of engineering leadership across our security, privacy, trust and safety, and cloud security engineering teams across the country.
As India leads the AI-driven digital transformation, ensuring the safety and security of every user and every digital interaction is paramount. Our commitment is to empower this journey with advanced defenses, building AI with responsibility at its core, providing accessible security protections, and tailoring our approach to meet India’s unique needs, making online safety a universal reality.
Heather Adkins
VP, Security Engineering, Cybersecurity Resilience Officer
India’s AI-led digital transformation demands Safety at its core. At Google, we’re committed to securing every layer of this journey with advanced AI defenses to help users, enterprises, and critical infrastructure thrive with trust – making India safer with Google, every day.
Sachin Kakkar
Engineering Site Director, Privacy, Safety and Security
For India's AI-led digital future, safety is non-negotiable. We are committed to securing every step of this transformation with advanced AI defenses, ensuring a safer internet for all in India.
Courtney Chatman
Director, Safer with Google
For India's AI-powered digital future, safety and security are non-negotiable. Google's approach is to embed robust safety and AI security by default, ensuring that as technology evolves, users, businesses, and critical infrastructure can thrive online, confidently and securely.
Abhishek A Hemrajani
Senior Director, Product Management, Google Cloud Security
In India's vibrant digital landscape, trust is the cornerstone of progress. We are dedicated to embedding robust safety and AI security by default, ensuring that as technology evolves, users, businesses, and critical infrastructure can thrive online, confidently and securely.
Jyoti Prakash
Head of Security Sales, India
In an era defined by AI-driven innovation, our foremost commitment is to make safety a non-negotiable reality. Our strategic investment in digital India's future is a crucial step forward, uniting industry efforts to build advanced, accessible defenses that empower every user to thrive online with confidence.
Mark Johnston
Director, Office of the CISO
Enabling safe internet experiences for our users is a cornerstone in our product design philosophy. We want our users to inherently feel safe and in control while using the internet.
Ram Papatla
Sr. Director, Trust and Safety, APAC, Cloud and Payments
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