Google Chrome Launches One-Tap Solution for Hacked Passwords

The logos of mobile apps, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Netflix, are displayed on a screen, Dec. 3, 2019. (Reuters)
The logos of mobile apps, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Netflix, are displayed on a screen, Dec. 3, 2019. (Reuters)
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Google Chrome Launches One-Tap Solution for Hacked Passwords

The logos of mobile apps, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Netflix, are displayed on a screen, Dec. 3, 2019. (Reuters)
The logos of mobile apps, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Netflix, are displayed on a screen, Dec. 3, 2019. (Reuters)

Google Inc. has added to its Chrome browser a new ability to fix password hack problems on many services and sites, with one step.

It's standard for web browsers to warn you when your password is found on a list of hacked passwords, but now Google's browser also will be able to fix it with a tap of a button.

When Google spots a vulnerable password, Google Assistant will offer a "change password" button, Google announced at its Google I/O developers conference.

It will arrive in Chrome on Android in the United States but will spread to other browsers and regions later.

It only will initially only work on Twitter and a "small number" of other sites.



Italy's Antitrust Takes Aim at Google over Personal Data Usage

FILED - 09 January 2024, US, Las Vegas: The Google logo can be seen on the Internet company's pavilion at the CES technology trade fair. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa
FILED - 09 January 2024, US, Las Vegas: The Google logo can be seen on the Internet company's pavilion at the CES technology trade fair. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa
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Italy's Antitrust Takes Aim at Google over Personal Data Usage

FILED - 09 January 2024, US, Las Vegas: The Google logo can be seen on the Internet company's pavilion at the CES technology trade fair. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa
FILED - 09 January 2024, US, Las Vegas: The Google logo can be seen on the Internet company's pavilion at the CES technology trade fair. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa

Italy's antitrust agency said on Thursday it had launched an investigation into online search giant Google and its parent company Alphabet over alleged unfair commercial practices involving users' personal data.
The request for consent that Google sends to its users to connect its multiple services "could constitute misleading and aggressive commercial practice", the watchdog said.
This "incomplete and misleading," information supplied to users fails to clarify the impact their consent may have on the use their personal data, the antitrust authority, which is in charge of overseeing consumer rights, added.
Google offers a wide range of online tools, including video platform YouTube, email service Gmail, and Maps.
The antitrust body said Google presented its request for users' consent in a way that could limit their freedom of choice, by inducing them to agree to a combined usage of personal data by different Google services.
"We will analyze the details of this case and will work cooperatively with the authority," a Google spokesperson said in a statement.
Under Italian legislation companies found in breach of consumer rights rules face fines ranging from 5,000 euros to 10 million euros.