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Safari 14 will let you log in to websites with your face or finger – Source CNET Computer News

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With Safari on iOS 14MacOS Big Sur and iPadOS 14, you’ll be able to log in to websites using Apple’s Face ID and Touch ID biometric authentication. That’s a powerful endorsement for technology called FIDOFast Identity Online — that’s paving the way to a future without passwords.

Apple disclosed the biometric authentication support in Safari on Wednesday at WWDC, its annual developers conference. “It’s both much faster and more secure,” Apple Safari programmer Jiewen Tan said during one of the WWDC video sessions Apple offered…

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