Google’s ongoing campaign to narrow the security and privacy gap between Android and iPhone, as well as the wider Google and Apple ecosystems has just taken its latest twist. For 2 billion Gmail users, this could completely change how you use email.
Apple’s Hide My Email feature lets users keep their personal email addresses private, away from the information brokers who sell lists of email addresses and phone numbers that drive the global scourge of spam and cold calling.
Now it seems Google has decided to follow suit—a surprise decision no-one saw coming and which was not touted with the other privacy and security updates this year. Per Android Authority, “sure, Gmail is an absolute champ at filtering out spam, but every time you share your email with someone even a little bit shady, do you feel like you’re playing with fire and risking a whole bunch of unwanted contact? Google may just have a solution in the works, at least by the looks of our latest teardown.”
