Google will soon begin notifying users before they submit data about them sending this data to an unsecured website.
Starting with its next edition of Chrome, Chrome 86, the generation giant will warn users before they “attempt to complete bureaucracy on secure pages (HTTPS) that are not sent securely.”
“This ‘mixed bureaucracy’ (bureaucracy on HTTPS sites that do not comply with HTTPS) poses a threat to the protection and privacy of the user. The data sent about that bureaucracy would possibly be visual for prying wiretaps, which would allow malicious parties to read or modify sensitive information on the form,” Google explained in an official blog post.
HTTPS sites have a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate and have been authenticated. The generation giant will notify users when they check out to provide bureaucracy data that is sent to an unsecured website, that is, without an SSL certificate.
With your next edition of Chrome, you’ll disable auto-filling on combined forms.
“With the bureaucracy combined with login and password requests, Chrome Password Manager will continue to work. Chrome’s password manager is helping users enter unique passwords and it’s safer to use unique passwords, even in unsecured sent bureaucracy, than to reuse passwords,” Google said.
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