Alongside new scam protection updates , Google announced a separate set of privacy and theft protection upgrades for Android at the Android Show I/O Edition today. From finer control over which apps can see your location and contacts, to new tools that make stolen phones harder to access and easier to recover, the updates give Android users more say over their own data. Your location and contacts stay yours Android 17 will introduce a new location button that lets you grant an app precise location access only while it’s open. Once you close the app, access will be revoked automatically, with no permanent permissions or repeated prompts. A new on-screen location indicator, first spotted in an Android 16 QPR3 beta release , will also appear at the top of your screen whenever any app accesses your location, similar to the existing camera and microphone indicators. Tapping it will show you which apps have recently used your location and let you adjust permissions on the spot through a “Recent app use” dialog.…