Google has announced to discontinue its emergency location-sharing app called Trusted Contacts from December this year and it has already disappeared from Play Store. Launched three years back, the ...

Google Inc. has launched a new Android app called Trusted Contacts, a personal safety app that lets you share your location with friends and family, even if you are offline, your battery is dead or ...

The government of India has asked all smartphone makers to add a similar feature on all smartphones launched in India from January 2017 onwards. The feature can be installed through an app or can be a ...

The search giant's goal: getting you out of sketchy situations with an app that can ping certain people your exact location. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and ...

Google has brought Trusted Contacts, its personal safety app for emergencies, to Apple's mobile devices. The app, which launched on Android last year, lets you set up select or 'trusted contacts' who ...

The Android ecosystem is expansive, but it’s also a breeding ground for unscrupulous sources that distribute apps without proper oversight. While Google Play Store is the most prominent and secure ...

Most people trust official app stores like Google Play and the App Store for safety — but even these trusted platforms can host malicious apps. Learn why caution is still essential when downloading ...

With Trusted Contacts, Google is launching a new personal safety app for Android today that allows others to ping you for your location when they think you may have been in an accident or in danger.

Google released Trusted Contacts for Android at the end of last year as an app version of Facebook's Safety Check that automatically shares your phone's status to close friends and family. So long as ...