Security News > 2020 > January > Google tests biometric authentication for Android autofill

Google is testing out a feature to make Android's built-in password manager safer, according to online sleuths who have picked apart its software.

You could use it to take autofill input from third-party password managers, or if you wanted to keep everything in your Google account, you could use autofill with Google's own password management service.

The problem with autofill when using Google's own password manager was that it doesn't ask for any extra authorisation.

The company is apparently looking at introducing biometric authentication for autofill, meaning that people will have to prove their identity before autofilling credentials from Google's password manager.

Third-party password managers already call the phone's biometric authentication before they'll fill anything out for you.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/14/google-tests-biometric-authentication-for-android-autofill/