{"id":238299,"date":"2026-06-04T02:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/google-adds-android-protection-against-ai-deepfake-scam-calls"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:25:01","slug":"google-adds-android-protection-against-ai-deepfake-scam-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/google-adds-android-protection-against-ai-deepfake-scam-calls","title":{"rendered":"Google adds Android protection against AI deepfake scam calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMkmrUqc7R0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Google is introducing a new Android security feature that will detect and flag phone calls in which scammers use artificial intelligence to impersonate a user\u2019s personal contacts.<\/p>\n<p>Called \u201cfake call detection,\u201d the feature is rolling out globally this month to Android 12 and later devices, starting with Pixel devices, and will be enabled by default.<\/p>\n<p>Once activated, it works automatically when both a caller and recipient are using Phone by Google: when a contact places a call, their device sends a silent, encrypted confirmation signal to the recipient\u2019s device in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is introducing a new Android security feature that will detect and flag phone calls in which scammers use artificial intelligence to impersonate a user\u2019s personal contacts. Called \u201cfake call detection,\u201d the feature is rolling out globally this month to Android 12 and later devices, starting with Pixel devices, and will be enabled by default. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1512,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}