Tech Desk 
Nov 16, 2024
Google is gearing up to roll out its new feature, Sheild Email, to protect its consumers from spam emails, ensuring their data privacy.
Spamming emails has become a recurring issue, due to which sign-ups for apps and services are becoming mandatory. Apple offers its consumers “Hide My Email” options in its iCloud to create burner email IDs to ensure the protection of users' primary emails.
Google Sheild Email
Google is expected to develop a similar feature that would protect its Android users from potential threats. Through rolling out its Sheild Email feature, the forwarded emails can be turned off at any time to put control over spam emails to protect users from online data breaches.
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How Shield Email works?
For signing up for apps, it would create random and unique email addresses. These auto-forward emails aim to protect the main primary emails from privacy breaches.
However, this feature can be restricted to its Google One subscribers only. It can be merged with Google’s password manager.
Google's new feature version
They would offer a free version for this but with a limited number of random email addresses that users would be allowed to access.
Comparison with Apple’s Hide My Email
Hide My Email has blended into Safari and the Mail app, in which users can send mails through randomly generated emails.
Google could integrate Sheild Email with its Gmail and Google Chrome, which would enhance its accessibility and usefulness just like Apple.
