{"id":10270,"date":"2017-04-22T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=10270"},"modified":"2017-04-20T13:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T18:04:45","slug":"google-autofill-use-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/google-autofill-use-information\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Google Autofill Use Your Information?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Autofill can be a useful tool: it can remember your passwords and account information for various websites, and your personal information such as your home address and credit card information for making purchases. Unfortunately, web browsers don\u2019t automatically block you from malicious websites or even inform you of possible dangers. That means that you could go to a dangerous website that tries to access and collect your Autofill data. Google Autofill may be trying to be helpful, but it could really be putting your personal information in jeopardy by trying to automatically fill out forms you click on, even if you did so by accident. <\/span><\/p>\n

To browse the Internet safely on your phone, you should activate Anti-Hacking to ensure that you never visit a malicious website or enter your personal information on an unsafe site. Once activated, you\u2019ll be blocked from dangerous sites, in addition to receiving notifications of insecure websites. Click here to activate Anti-Hacking now:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"activate-safe-navigation\"<\/a><\/center>Read More: <\/b>Does the U.S. Government Value Your Privacy?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

What Does Google Autofill Store?<\/b><\/p>\n

Google Autofill can store your name, home address, business address, phone number, email address, and credit and debit cards. However, it can store any information that you enter, such as if you use a friend\u2019s address or personal information for ordering a package. If a friend or a family member is logged into an account on your computer, Autofill may save their information, too. So it\u2019s not only your information in jeopardy of being stolen.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dangers of Google Autofill<\/b><\/p>\n

It can be dangerous to store your account and credit card information with Autofill, whether you visit a malicious website or not. If your account is hacked, or if your phone or computer are stolen, then you\u2019ve just given a hacker access to all of your account and financial information. They can easily access and view all of the information you\u2019ve stored with Chrome.<\/span><\/p>\n

To make your personal information is more secure, you should either restrict Autofill\u2019s behavior, or else disable it altogether. You can disable Autofill by going to Chrome\u2019s settings, and then unchecking the box \u201cenable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A Common Problem with Autofills<\/b><\/p>\n

Earlier this year it was reported that Google Autofill \u2014 in addition to other web browser and password manager\u2019s autofills \u2014 was giving away users\u2019 information to hidden, malicious text boxes on websites. Autofill didn\u2019t need users\u2019 approval before filling out a text box; even if a user intended to give only a name and email address to a website, Autofill would still automatically fill other boxes with your personal information. Or, it could provide unseen, malicious text boxes on the web page with your information. This is all another reason that you should consider disabling Autofill.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may trust Google with a lot of your information \u2014 or it may store it without your knowledge. But what does Google do with it all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[106,3860,249],"class_list":["post-10270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-information","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}