This new feature in Chrome will monitor your sensitive information even when you switch tabs
The new version of Android that most compatible devices will start receiving in the coming weeks will bring good news for those who use the Chrome browser.
Among the new security features that will be added with Android 15 to Chrome is that it will monitor confidential information when we share the screen, either in tab previews when changing tabs or on the page itself.
The tab previews displayed in the tab switcher of Chrome for Android will also be redacted during screen sharing or screen recording if they contain sensitive content, there is a new flag in Canary that enables this feature:https://t.co/sXbrDEv3Ro pic.twitter.com/YkYWnJs49V
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Thus, a new flag has been discovered in an early version of Chrome, indicating that when this feature is enabled, if sensitive content, such as entering passwords or credit card information, is detected, the screen will be monitored for a period of time during sharing and similar actions.
This confidential content protection function will allow us to type sensitive information such as passwords, emails or credit card entry while screen sharing or recording, where it will not be seen directly.
The update joins a change to incognito tabs and a new improved security check function for mobile devices.
Today it is essential to have technological allies who avoid mistakes that could reveal our personal or confidential information during certain actions on the Internet.
Users in the Android community would certainly appreciate a feature of this kind to prevent information of interest to us from appearing during screen sharing on calls, presentations, etc.