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Google announced a new feature for its Chrome browser that alerts users when one of their passwords is compromised for timely intervention.
This new feature that helps you change hacked passwords is based on Duplex technology.
This new feature will start to roll out slowly to Chrome users on Android in the U.S. soon, with other countries following later.
Google clarified that the new feature is yet to work for all sites. The tech giant was quoted saying, “The feature will initially work on a small number of apps and websites, including Twitter, but will expand to additional sites in the future.”
You may remember Duplex as the somewhat controversial service that can call businesses to make appointments for you.
The Duplex technology was unveiled during Google’s 2018 I/O developer conference before it was released to the broader audience in 2019. Since then, Google has been working towards bringing Duplex to more tasks.
Now it’s coming to Chrome to change your compromised passwords for you.
The senior product manager for Chrome, Patrick Nepper, said:
“Powered by Duplex on the Web, Assistant takes over the tedious parts of web browsing: scrolling, clicking, and filling forms and allows you to focus on what’s important to you.
And now we’re expanding these capabilities even further by letting you quickly create a strong password for specific sites and apps when Chrome determines your credentials have been leaked online.”
Once Chrome detects a compromised password, all you have to do is tap the “change password” button.
Duplex will walk you through the process of changing your password.
It’ll be interesting to see how well this works in the real world. Every site manages passwords slightly differently, so it would be hard to write a set of basic rules that the browser could use to go through this process.
And that’s likely why Google is using Duplex here. Since every site is slightly different, it takes a system that can understand a bit more about the context of a password change page to navigate it successfully.
Google is also updating its password manager with deeper integration between Chrome and Android and automatic password alerts.
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