{"id":120996,"date":"2017-10-01T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120996"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:39:39","slug":"google-removes-nfc-smart-lock-from-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/120996-google-removes-nfc-smart-lock-from-android","title":{"rendered":"Google removes NFC smart lock from Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is removing the NFC Smart Unlock feature from Android for\u00a0new logins, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/google-removes-nfc-smart-unlock-from-android-with-no-warning-or-explanation-517846.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Softpedia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the removal of the function \u2013 which\u00a0allowed a phone to act as a security token based on the NFC technology \u2013 was a strange decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an old technology, and if anything, it was just starting to take off,\u201d stated Softpedia.<\/p>\n<p>It said that Google has made the change \u201cwithout telling people and without explaining the reasons behind it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmartLock NFC feature has been deprecated for new users. If you are not existing NFC users, the option will be hidden,\u201d said the\u00a0Google Issue Tracker.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/230867-firefox-quantum-the-fastest-firefox-ever.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Firefox Quantum \u2013 The fastest Firefox ever<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is removing the NFC Smart Unlock feature from Android for\u00a0new logins, reported\u00a0Softpedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":97186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[947,1638,1461],"class_list":["post-120996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-google","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}