On October 5, 2024, Google released a security update for Android 9 and later, featuring a new service called SafetyCore. This component aims to provide privacy-preserving on-device user protection for apps, primarily focusing on identifying and filtering sensitive content, such as nudity. While Google's communication about SafetyCore was vague, it included a feature in Google Messages that warns users before sending images that may contain such content. The update also reassured users on privacy, stating that sensitive content detection occurs without Google accessing the images directly.
Sensitive Content Warnings is an optional feature that blurs images that may contain nudity before viewing and prompts with a 'speed bump' that contains help-finding resources.
SafetyCore is a new Google system service for Android 9+ devices that provides the on-device infrastructure for securely and privately performing classification to help users detect unwanted content.
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