IN BUILD / SCAM AND PRIVACY PROTECTION
Family Protection: What comes in waits. What goes out gets a second look.
Family Protection is protection for the people you love, in two parts. A mail screen stops what comes in. It watches one inbox from a home computer and holds any message that is not from a known contact whose email passes its security check. A person they trust sees each held message as a plain-English card on a paired phone, then releases it or blocks it. Every held message is at least Unsure, anything it cannot read clearly is never shown as fine, and a request for gift cards, crypto or a wire raises it to Likely scam. A privacy check warns about what goes out. It reads a message a person is about to send, to an AI app or to a stranger, and says in plain words what it gives away: a card number, a one-time code, a password, a health detail, a request to pay in gift cards. Fixed rules look first, and a small classifier can flag what the rules missed. It can also swap each private value for a placeholder, so the outside AI never sees it. On a Mac, the 8-bit classifier checks a message in about 12 milliseconds, using about 24 to 35 MB of memory.
What is notable
- In tests on synthetic mail, the mail screen held 10 of 10 planted scams and passed 10 of 10 messages from known contacts.
- On two blind test sets written by a separate AI reviewer, the privacy check caught 48 and 49 of 50 risky messages and flagged 1 and 2 of 50 ordinary ones.
- The mail screen cannot send, reply, forward or delete mail, or move money, and the privacy check's classifier can only raise a flag, never clear one.
Your data
Both parts run on a computer you control. The mail screen's summaries come from rules on that computer, the only things sent beyond the mail provider are a count of held messages and alerts that carry no message content, and a message's text is erased once someone decides on it. The privacy check's rules need no network, nothing is stored by default, and the optional log holds counts only, never text or values.
The data is yours.
Why we built it
A scam works best when it is read alone, and people give away more than they mean to, to AI apps and to strangers. Family Protection exists so a message from a stranger waits for someone trusted, and a private detail gets a second look before it leaves. It is in build. The mail screen is tested on synthetic messages only and covers one mailbox on a home computer, not texts, and mail from known contacts is not screened. The privacy check runs on a Mac, not yet on a phone or in a browser, and a first trial on real email showed it still needs email training before it is ready for mail.