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Google on Tuesday unveiled its Safety Charter for India's AI-led transformation, at the "Safer with Google India Summit", focusing on the company's deep commitment to creating a safer online environment and empowering users, businesses, and governments while building AI responsibly.The strategic blueprint operates through three foundational pillars-- keeping end users safe from online frauds and scams; strengthening cybersecurity for government and enterprise infrastructure; and building AI responsibly.Under its Digikavach program, Google has reached over 177 million Indians with AI-powered protections and awareness initiatives to combat financial fraud.AI integration across its platforms is transforming threat detection--Search now identifies 20x more scam-related pages; impersonation attacks on customer service and government sites have dropped by over 80 per cent and 70 per cent, respectively.Google Messages blocks over 500 million scam texts monthly and has issued more than 2.5 billion suspicious link warnings via on-device AI.Since its October 2024 pilot in India, Google Play Protect has blocked nearly 6 crore high-risk app installation attempts across 13 million devices. Google Pay has issued 4.1 crore scam transaction alert.Disclaimer: This story is from the syndicated feed. Nothing has been changed except the headline.