Google plans to get rid of passwords on Android devices

Google plans on ridding the world of passwords, at least for any device running an Android operating system. At the Google I/O developers conference 2016, the company made some big announcements including project Ara, Google Home, Chatbot Allo and more. Considering the sheer scale of the event one intriguing announcement may have flown under the gun. 

At the Google conference, Daniel Kaufman told attendees that Google intends to introduce a new type of software recognition that would make convention passwords (that we use today) obsolete.

Google is calling the new technology 'Trust API' and Google’s ATAP team plans to bring it to life. The system  -- that works on a combination of applied science -- will recognize user signals like the way you type, talk, walk etc.

“We have a phone, and these phones have all these sensors in them. Why couldn’t it just know who I was, so I don’t need a password? It should just be able to work.” said Kaufman. 

The works on a “Trust Score” the higher the trust score the more access you get to the cellular device. Low priority apps like games would need the least ‘Trust Score’ while a banking app would require a higher score. 

Kaufman thinks that Google’s ATAP team could bring Trust API to smartphones by the end of 2016.