{"id":57321,"date":"2024-10-08T02:59:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/google-brings-better-bricking-to-androids-to-curtail-crims\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T02:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:59:13","slug":"google-brings-better-bricking-to-androids-to-curtail-crims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/google-brings-better-bricking-to-androids-to-curtail-crims\/","title":{"rendered":"Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has apparently started a global rollout of three features in Android designed to make life a lot harder for thieves to profit from purloined phones.<\/p>\n

The search and ads giant announced<\/a>the features in May, to coincide with its I\/O developer conference. The tech has since been trialed in Brazil, and now appears to have popped up on people’s phones across the world, according to posts<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n

The three features are:<\/p>\n

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