Google Calendar will integrate a new option allowing you to display in your calendar only invitations from contacts you know.
You will soon be able to limit the spam displayed in your Google calendar. The Mountain View company has just announced the deployment of a new option aimed at limiting the addition of unwanted invitations to your Google calendar. To do this, you can, by going to the Google Calendar event settings, choose which invitations are authorized or not to be added to the calendar.
Until now, Google only offered two options for adding invitations to the calendar. So you can Add the invitations From Everyone, or When I respond to the email invitation. A third option will appear: Only if the sender is known. This therefore includes people using the same domain as yours (if you use Workspace at work), people saved in your address book, or people with whom you have already had interactions.
If this new option is at the free choice of the user, the administrators will be able, in the companies, to choose to apply it by default. The deployment of this new option is underway and should be done gradually over the next two weeks for all users, professionals and individuals.
For many years now, Google Calendar has been plagued by hackers and other spammers for delivering fake events that have malicious URLs embedded in them that are nothing more than phishing attempts. By clicking on it, you will not get the fabulous gift that the spammer dangles you, but you risk offering him your personal data on a plate, with the dramatic risks that this can entail.
Existing solutions to counter Google Calendar spam
Aware of this scourge, Google promised in 2019 to address the issue of unwanted invitations in its Calendar application. Fortunately, Google Calendar users did not wait for the Mountain View company to deign to address this problem. For more than three years, other solutions to counter the display of spam in the Google calendar have existed. The application settings already include several options which, if correctly configured, will prevent spam from flooding Google Calendar.
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