Google has started to test its incoming Theft Detection Lock feature, announced during its Google I/O developer conference last month, with Android smartphone owners in Brazil. The South American country is a hotbed for phone theft — with one million mobiles stolen within a year in 2022, data from Brazil Forum on Public Safety shows. That’s 1.9 phones stolenevery minute. In fact, Google engineers started to work on the functionality, which is powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), because of feedback from its users and employees in Sao Paolo, Brazil and London, UK. Beta tests are designed to…
