Google plans to replace your passwords with a trust system

23 June 2016

Google intends to use your biometrics data including to strengthen your authentication, reports Hackernews.

Features include the ability to unlock when it recognises a trusted GPS location, or when your device’s camera recognises the user’s facial characteristics.

The collected data then helps the API formulate a “Trust score” which will let you authenticate without being prompted for a password.

The new Trust API will be available to Android developers by the end of 2016 and is currently undergoing tests at “very large financial institutions”.

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