Google’s ‘Shielded Email’ Privacy Feature

It’s been reported that Google is developing ‘Shielded Email’, a feature that creates temporary email aliases to protect users’ primary addresses from spam and misuse by third-party apps and services.

What Is Shielded Email?

Shielded Email, the feature reportedly being developed by Google, will allow users to create temporary email aliases to protect their primary email addresses from misuse by third-party applications and services. These unique, single-use (or limited-use) aliases will forward messages to the user’s main Gmail account, enabling safer interactions with online platforms without revealing the real address. If an alias starts receiving unwanted emails, users can simply disable forwarding, stopping the spam entirely.