{"id":165397,"date":"2023-06-08T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/googles-password-manager-gains-biometric-authentication-on-desktop"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:29:12","slug":"googles-password-manager-gains-biometric-authentication-on-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/googles-password-manager-gains-biometric-authentication-on-desktop","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Password Manager gains biometric authentication on desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-password-manager-gains-biometric-authentication-on-desktop3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s aiming to make it easier to use and secure passwords \u2014 at least, for users of the Password Manager tool built into its Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the tech giant announced that Password Manager, which generates unique passwords and autofills them across platforms, will soon gain biometric authentication on PC. (Android and iOS have had biometric authentication for some time.) When enabled, it\u2019ll require an additional layer of security, like fingerprint recognition or facial recognition, before Chrome autofills passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly which types of biometrics are available in Password Manager on desktop will depend on the hardware attached to the PC, of course (e.g. a fingerprint reader), as well as whether the PC\u2019s operating system supports it. Beyond \u201csoon,\u201d Google didn\u2019t say when to expect the feature to arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s aiming to make it easier to use and secure passwords \u2014 at least, for users of the Password Manager tool built into its Chrome browser. Today, the tech giant announced that Password Manager, which generates unique passwords and autofills them across platforms, will soon gain biometric authentication on PC. (Android and iOS have had [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1412,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165397","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}