{"id":20412,"date":"2025-06-04T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/new-google-survey-shows-changing-security-habits\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:03:42","slug":"new-google-survey-shows-changing-security-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/new-google-survey-shows-changing-security-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"New Google survey shows changing security habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li data-block-key=\"6s8dw\"><b>People report spending more time online, using fewer accounts \u2014 especially Gen Z<\/b>. Half of Americans \u2014 and over 60% of Gen Z \u2014 spend at least five hours on their phones per day, but most users only report managing 10 or fewer online accounts. This is likely driven by social sign-ins \u2014 which allow people to navigate the web easily and safely, removing the need to set up new accounts and sign in separately to each of them.<\/li>\n<li data-block-key=\"bi0sd\"><b>Americans value real-time threat detection in products they use<\/b>. Half of U.S. consumers report being notified about compromised passwords, with Google being the most frequent of those notifications. Google Password Manager not only flags your compromised passwords, but can create strong passwords for you, autofill them so you don\u2019t have to, and even prevent you from entering them into a dangerous website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-block-key=\"3rvkb\">These results show a world in which security practices are changing, and why it\u2019s important to use tools that automatically secure your account and protect you from scams. You can read more about Morning Consult\u2019s full international data analysis of the study here.<\/p>\n<h2 data-block-key=\"6c928\">Protection you don\u2019t have to think about<\/h2>\n<p data-block-key=\"38ja3\">Scams typically start by criminals trying to gain access to your online accounts, which is why we use the latest AI and secure sign-in technologies to make it really hard for scammers to ever reach you. We block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware from Gmail and new Android features like \u201cCall Screen\u201d means you can simply ignore malicious phone calls. We also expanded AI-powered Scam Detection in Google Messages on Android to flag messages from crypto, financial, toll road, gift card scams and more \u2014 to help the 88% of Americans who\u2019ve encountered fake toll fees or package delivery scams. On multiple fronts, regardless of how you prefer to approach online security, we\u2019ve got you covered. Here are some recommendations for everyone.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-block-key=\"6peeq\">We want to move <i>beyond<\/i> passwords altogether, while keeping sign-ins as easy as possible, so we strongly encourage using modern methods like Sign in with Google and passkeys. Passkeys are phishing-resistant and can log you in simply with the method you use to unlock your device (like your fingerprint or face ID) \u2014 no password required. And when you pair the ease and safety of passkeys with Sign in with Google, you can rely on just your Google Account to log in to your favorite websites and apps \u2014 limiting the number of accounts you have to maintain. Gen Z\u2019s embrace of these tools actually represents a big step forward for collective security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/safety-security\/google-survey-digital-security-2025\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People report spending more time online, using fewer accounts \u2014 especially Gen Z. Half of Americans \u2014 and over 60% of Gen Z \u2014 spend at least five hours on their phones per day, but most users only report managing 10 or fewer online accounts. This is likely driven by social sign-ins \u2014 which allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}