Chrome Password Manager now supports face, fingerprint biometric security.
Google has announced several new security features to the Chrome browser, including one to enable users to leverage a computer's connected or integrated biometric authentication devices to access credentials stored on Chrome's Password Manager..
Today Google and Chrome add some new key features: a quick shortcut to your passwords from the desktop, the ability to import passwords stored elsewhere, and, perhaps most importantly, the ability to use biometric identification to unlock your password vault on the desktop browser..
Your fingerprint data isn't shared with Google or any apps on your device.
Apps are notified only whether your fingerprint was verified.
If you're ready to get started using your fingerprint to unlock your phone or tablet, ..
The biometric authentication is done by Chrome before users auto-fills payment information.
Now, Google Chrome will ask users for fingerprint verification for entering saved passwords as well.
Google Chrome keeps adding new features to improve user experience..
Biometric authentication is a security process that relies on the unique biological characteristics of individuals to verify they are who they say they are.
Biometric authentication systems compare physical or behavioral traits to stored, confirmed, authentic data in a database..
Biometric login provides a convenient method for authorizing access to private content within your app.
Instead of having to remember an account username and password every time they open your app, users can just use their biometric credentials to confirm their presence and authorize access to the private content..
We strongly recommend locking your screen to help protect your phone.
Your fingerprint sensor gives you a convenient unlocking option.
Windows Hello is used on Windows devices.
The biometrics option has to be enabled through Settings.
The user has to enter the Master Password to verify the account.
When unlocking with the biometrics option enabled, Enter Master Password screen as shown below:.
Touch ID is used on Mac devices.
The biometrics option has to be enabled through Settings.
The user has to enter the Master Password to verify the account.
When unlocking with the biometrics option enabled, Enter Master Password screen as shown below:
"In blatant defiance of that law, Google has, since at least 2015, collected biometric data from innumerable Texans and used their faces and their voices to serve Google’s commercial ends," the complaint said. "Indeed, all across the state, everyday Texans have become unwitting cash cows being milked by Google for profits." .
If your phone has a fingerprint sensor, either on the display or on the back of your device, you can use your fingerprint to unlock your phone, authorize purchases, and unlock certain apps.
You can use the Pixel phone simulator for a step-by-step tutorial to set up Fingerprint Unlock.
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About humanity—physical bravery, trauma, PTSD, a yearning to do right and good—in the age of biometrics, which reduce people to iris scans, fingerprint scans, voice patterning, detection by odor, gait, and more.
And about the power of point-of-view in a burgeoning surveillance state.
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