WhatsApp adds on-device scam detection without sending chats to Meta

Meta has unveiled an early version of Scam Alert, an optional WhatsApp security feature that uses an on-device machine learning model to identify messages that may be part of a scam. The company says message content remains on the user’s phone during classification and is not automatically sent to WhatsApp, Meta, or third parties. The …

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