How Pixel and Android are bringing a new level of trust to your images with C2PA Content Credentials

Publisher excerpt From Google Online Security Blog

Posted by Eric Lynch, Senior Product Manager, Android Security, and Sherif Hanna, Group Product Manager, Google C2PA Core At Made by Google 2025, we announced that the new Google Pixel 10 phones will support C2PA Content Credentials in Pixel Camera and Google Photos. This announcement represents a series of steps towards greater digital media transparency: The Pixel 10 lineup is the first to have Content Credentials built in across every photo created by Pixel Camera. The Pixel Camera app achieved Assurance Level 2, the highest security rating currently defined by the C2PA Conformance Program. Assurance Level 2 for a mobile app is currently only possible on the Android platform. A private-by-design approach to C2PA certificate management, where no image or group of images can be related to one another or the person who created them. Pixel 10 phones support on-device trusted time-stamps, which ensures images captured with your native camera app can be trusted after the certificate expires, even if they were captured when your device was offline. These capabilities are powered by Google Tensor G5, Titan M2 security chip, the advanced hardware-backed security features of the Android platform, and Pixel engineering expertise. In this post, we’ll break down our architectural blueprint for bringing a new level of trust to digital media, and how developers can apply this model to their own apps on Android. A New Approach to Content Credentials Generative AI can help us…

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