Google is working on a feature to Gmail which will allow users to create email aliases to sign up for services and applications, keeping their contact details private and protecting them from ‘spam’, a feature similar to Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’.
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This functionality is called ‘Shielded Email’, as has been seen in the APK of the most recent version of the application (24.45.33) from Google Play Services, which contains several lines of code that refer to an option identified as ‘Protected Mail’.
With this feature it is offered as a system that allows you to create a single-use or limited-use email alias which in turn forwards the messages received to this alleged email account to the main one, as Android Authority has recently warned.
In this way, ‘spam’ would be avoided and the security of user accounts would be reinforced, by reducing the risk that users’ online activities could be tracked or mitigating personal risks in the event of possible future data breaches.
Google is therefore working on a feature similar to Apple’s ‘Hide my email’, which allows you to generate a unique and random email address and is designed so that the real address does not have to be shared when filling out forms in applications or subscribing. to internet newsletters.