{"id":219687,"date":"2026-03-04T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/3-android-theft-protection-additions-you-should-absolutely-activate-computerworld\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:54:57","slug":"3-android-theft-protection-additions-you-should-absolutely-activate-computerworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/3-android-theft-protection-additions-you-should-absolutely-activate-computerworld\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Android theft protection additions you should absolutely activate \u2013 Computerworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4140059\/android-theft-protection.html\">3 Android theft protection additions you should absolutely activate \u2013 Computerworld<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4140059\/android-theft-protection.html\">https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4140059\/android-theft-protection.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 05:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.computerworld.com\">www.computerworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s some critical 101-level knowledge to keep in mind at the start of any Android security discussion \u2014 especially one from a source that\u2019s either incentivized to generate a persistent sense of fear (hiya, security software vendors!) or written by someone who doesn\u2019t understand Android enough to separate sensationalism from reality.<\/p>\n<p>I bring all of that up now to tell you that this isn\u2019t another one of those \u201csky is falling!\u201d\/\u201dnew Android malware monster is out to getcha!\u201d narratives. Nope \u2014 no one is digging for your data, hacking into your hackles, or pouncing on your pantry to purloin all of your peanut butter, even. (Well, that last part might actually be happening, but that\u2019s just the work of your friendly neighborhood marmot, with no digital security connection.)<\/p>\n<p>Rather, as often does occur, Google\u2019s given us a handful of powerful new tools to further strengthen our Android security setups and bring even more layers of protection into our lives. They\u2019re slowly but surely starting to show up as options on devices worldwide \u2014 and, in many cases, it\u2019s up to you to find \u2019em and activate \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4140059\/android-theft-protection.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Android theft protection additions you should absolutely activate \u2013 Computerworld https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4140059\/android-theft-protection.html Publish Date: 2026-03-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4140059-0-08765500-1772621277-android-theft-protection.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,32,57],"class_list":["post-219687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-malware","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219689,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219687\/revisions\/219689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}