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Google Plans to Replace Traditional Passwords With ‘Trust Score’

Phenny Lynn Palec   |

May 24, 2016 03:52 PM EDT

Google announced at its annual I/O conference that it is pushing an initiative to finally make conventional passwords a thing of the past, at least on the Android operating system. Instead, the tech giant will replace passwords with what it called "trust scores," something that incorporates different type of data about a specific user to determine whether they are legitimate or not.