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Privacy Practices
Discover how we build products that protect your privacy.
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Learn about our advertising principles and your ad experience.
Security
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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Protect people, businesses, and governments
Security is the cornerstone of our product strategy. Which is why all our products have built-in protections that make them secure by default.
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Empower society to address cybersecurity risks
We empower societies to unlock the potential of open source, and share our knowledge and expertise transparently with the industry to keep ecosystems safer.
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Advance future technologies
We want to protect societies from the next generation of cyber threats. Building on our AI expertise, we are designing the next wave of architectures to push the boundaries of security innovation.
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Protecting people
Empowering societies
Advancing technology
Workforce skilling
Protect people, businesses,
and governments
We build advanced security into every stage of our product development and cloud infrastructure. This enables organizations to modernize and strengthen their IT security while helping users protect their personal information and access the internet safely.
Passkeys
With passkeys, you can skip your password for an easier and more secure sign-in experience, using your fingerprint, face scan, or screen lock. Passkeys are an industry standard and work across all your devices and platforms.
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Advanced Protection Program
See how we’re safeguarding high-visibility users such as journalists and government officials with sensitive information from targeted attacks.
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IoT Security
We are helping advance the future of connected device security through our product development, transparency criteria, and industry partnerships.
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Digital transformation of legacy infrastructure
We support organizations of every size as they migrate to the cloud and transform their security, changing the baseline of what good security looks like.
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Threat detection and response
To help democratize threat and incident response, we share our expertise with organizations via our threat research, Google Cloud products, and incident response services to help combat cyberattacks.
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Compliance and sovereignty
Google Cloud helps federal agencies address Executive Order (EO) 14028 and other White House requirements with solutions spanning Zero Trust, cybersecurity analytics, and web asset protection.
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Fighting harmful content
We prevent abuse and protect users, especially children, by detecting and removing unlawful and harmful content that violates our policies. We do this across categories of harm, including deceptive ads, disinformation, hate, scams, and child safety.
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Empower society to address cybersecurity risks
We’re partnering with cybersecurity leaders, governments, and security communities to advance global standards that put user protections first, combat disinformation, and share threat intelligence to keep the internet open and secure for everyone.
Strengthening the cyber workforce
We’re empowering the cyber workforce by sharing our expertise, expanding career pathways, and forming strong industry and government partnerships to help launch more careers in cybersecurity — irrespective of experience or background — and build a safer world for all.
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Threat Analysis Group
TAG works to counter targeted and government-backed hacking against Google and our users from the world’s most sophisticated adversaries.
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Open Source Security
Open source allows for a more collaborative and innovative world. We regularly open source our tooling and frameworks to make software supply chain security available to everyone.
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Project Zero
This specialized task force hunts zero day exploits across the internet. From software to hardware, Google products and beyond, this team helps ensure the internet remains safe and open.
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Mandiant Threat Intelligence
Mandiant brings real-time, in-depth threat intel gained on the frontlines of cybersecurity with the world’s largest organizations. Combined with Google Cloud security, we help enterprises and public sector agencies stay protected throughout the security life cycle.
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VirusTotal
VirusTotal is the world’s largest crowdsourced threat intelligence platform. VirusTotal’s tools help security practitioners understand cybersecurity trends and the behavior patterns of threat actors.
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Advance future technologies
We work to safeguard vulnerable users from online attacks while protecting their privacy through advancements in AI, hardware, and cloud computing, and while driving international standards for quantum computing.
Secure AI Framework
Generative AI has immense potential, but clear industry standards and effective risk management are required to build and deploy it responsibly. That’s why we introduced the Secure AI Framework (SAIF), a conceptual framework to secure AI systems.
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AI-enabled secure products
Automatic security protections are built into our products to deliver safe experiences to all users. Machine learning helps Gmail block spam, phishing, and malware from showing up in your inbox with over 99.9% accuracy.
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Post-quantum cryptography
We develop cryptographic systems that safeguard against the breaking of public-key cryptosystems. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected a submission with Google’s involvement for standardization.
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Protected Computing
We’re committed to building products that are helpful and protect people’s privacy. Protected Computing transforms how, when, and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety.
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Trusted hardware
Security keys use public-key cryptography to ensure the strongest account protection. Titan Security Keys are built with a hardware chip designed to prevent phishing and attacks aimed at extracting firmware and secret-key material.
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Google Trust Services
GTS is a free certificate authority built on Google’s geographically distributed infrastructure that authenticates and encrypts connections. Google secures our own sites with GTS and now offers the same technology for all websites to use.
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Collaboration to make the
internet safer for everyone
Cybersecurity is a team sport, and when we work together, we can spur innovation and advance best practices that benefit all in this complex, rapidly evolving landscape.
Meet the hackers keeping people safe online
Five elite security teams. Six never-before-told stories. Go behind the scenes to see how Google keeps more people safe online than anyone else in the world.
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Google Safety and Engineering Centers
Our teams work across privacy, security, content responsibility, and family safety around the world. Our GSECs help guide this work, led by experienced engineers, policy specialists, and subject matter experts.
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Google Bug Hunters
Our global community of Bug Hunters peeks under the hood of our products to keep them working the way they’re intended and make the internet a safer place.
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Google Cybersecurity Action Team
We deploy the world’s premier security advisory team to support the security and digital transformation of governments, critical infrastructure, enterprises, and small businesses.
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Strengthening the cybersecurity workforce to help build a safer world for all
Global cyberattacks are rising, placing critical infrastructure at greater risk. We’re helping to build a robust cyber workforce by enabling careers in cybersecurity, regardless of background or experience. We can empower the future cyber workforce by sharing our expertise, expanding career pathways, and forming strong industry partnerships to help protect critical infrastructure through nationwide initiatives.
Google Cybersecurity Certificate
Sharing our expertise to strengthen the cybersecurity workforce
Built and taught by cybersecurity experts at Google, our Google Cybersecurity Certificate will provide people with in-demand skills needed for entry-level cybersecurity jobs. This online training program requires no prior experience and can be completed in under 6 months. Upon completion, Certificate graduates can connect with over 150 employers in our Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium.
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Google Cyber Clinics Fund
Creating new pathways to gain practical cybersecurity experience
Google.org, in collaboration with the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, will grant university and community college–based cybersecurity clinics awards of up to $1 million through an open call, helping thousands of students pursue careers in the high-demand field of cybersecurity while providing them with real-world experience safeguarding critical U.S. infrastructure such as hospitals, schools, and energy grids.
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Cybersecurity Research Program
Advanced cybersecurity research and training program
Google, in collaboration with four leading New York City universities, launched a multiyear research program to support scientific advances in cybersecurity. The program will select 30 research projects annually, with a focus on raising standards of online privacy, safety, and security. The program will also support growing advanced cybersecurity training efforts that champion the inclusion of underrepresented groups in cybersecurity.
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Uniting for a safer tomorrow
Transforming the cybersecurity workforce will not happen overnight but through ongoing efforts across public, private, and government sectors. Google, in partnership with the leading cybersecurity community organizations, commits to building a robust, more inclusive cyber workforce — one where anyone who is interested in the field can access knowledge, build their skills, feel they belong, and expand their professional network. Learn more from our partners.
Google is protecting the critical infrastructure we all rely on
Learn more about our advances in protecting America, businesses, education, and more.
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