In this article, FIDO Alliance Executive Director Brett McDowell tells Motherboard about WebAuthn, saying “What [consumers] use today to ‘unlock’ [their phones] will soon allow them to ‘login’ to all their favorite websites and a growing number of native apps that already includes Bank of America, PayPal, eBay and Aetna.”


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