Truecaller has launched a new feature called Family Protection, designed to help safeguard households from scam and fraud calls.
The feature creates a ‘Safety Circle’ that can include up to five people within a household, providing collective protection against fraudulent activity.
As part of the move, the caller identification app is onboarding a shared safety system that allows families to monitor and manage potential threats across multiple devices.
The company says it is rolling out the feature in India as online scams, including impersonation fraud, AI voice cloning, and digital arrest scams, increasingly target users across the country.
As per the statement, “It can also alert the designated family administrator and remotely end a suspect call on behalf of a different family member if a risky call is detected. The system is claimed to protect vulnerable users such as elderly family members, who are often targeted by threat actors using increasingly sophisticated tactics.”
With Safety Circle, one family member will be able to manage security settings and alerts for individuals who are part of the group. Truecaller claims that while the system allows families to share security protections, it does not give members access to each other’s personal data. Call logs, messages, and other personal information are claimed to remain private to individual users.
According to the statement, “Family Protection is available for free, however, users who subscribe to Truecaller’s Premium Family Plan can access additional features. These include advanced security tools and expanded monitoring capabilities. Truecaller said that the subscription plan is designed to complement the basic protection tools available in the free version.”
