Zak Doffman has covered security, surveillance and privacy on Forbes since 2018. Doffman’s focus includes: ‘big tech’ security; smartphone and social media dos and don’ts; and the dangers of AI. He has been regularly cited in the media, including BBC, Sky, NPR, NBC, Channel 4, TF1, ITV and Fox.
ads air on TV screens around the world, Google has just revealed a surprisingly smart Chrome update for 2 billion Android users that seems to up the security and privacy ante on iPhone and Safari.on X, “It looks like Chrome for Android will redact sensitive content during screen sharing, screen recording, and similar actions.” When enabled, this should prevent inadvertent sharing of credit card numbers, passwords, or other classifiably sensitive info that has been typed into Chrome fields.
We have all accidentally shared parts of our screens we’d rather not, whether on Zoom, Teams or Meet. And while navigating screen sharing on a laptop is fairly easy, it’s much less intuitive on a phone or tablet, where you’re more likely to share an entire screen than a specific window from a dropdown list.
This feature has not been released, but “there is a new flag in the Canary version to enable this feature.” These Chrome flags enable Google to roll out features for anyone to easily test out in the Canary pre-release software. Notwithstanding its bad press, Chrome’s Incognito mode has always been pretty good at protecting data from screen shares, redacting everything, but this new feature brings more targeted protection to regular tabs as well.
Google will also introduce an option to close all Incognito tabs. This is critical. Unlike Safari, Chrome does not protect data between Incognito tabs and so private data is only erased and forgotten when all Incognito tabs are closed. Safari does not share data between private browsing tabs, and so when a tab is closed all its data is erased.
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