Passwords gone by 2017? Google wants to use trust scores instead based on biometrics, location data, etc.

06/01/2016 - 02:58

Sally Adee


Goodbye, Password1. Goodbye, 12345. You’ve been hearing about it for years but now it might really be happening:the password is almost dead.

At Google’s I/O developer conference, Daniel Kaufman, head of Google’s advanced technology projects, announced that the company plans to phase out password access to its Android mobile platform in favour of a trust score by 2017. 

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