“As people use an increasing number of accounts across a range of connected devices, online security is becoming a more prominent issue. Consumers are willing to trade-off security for convenience to some extent, except when it comes to financial accounts. Smartphone manufacturers have increasingly used biometric technology to unlock phones and this has been used to make apps and mobile payments more secure. Fingerprint scanning and facial recognition will increasingly ...
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Online Account Concerns
Online Security Measures
Password Behaviour
Attitudes towards Digital Security
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23rd April 2020
“Video chatting has become a central element of people’s lives in lockdown, opening the door for a variety of services, from online dating to social media, to introduce more video call features. Caution will still need to be shown, though, as the security of video chatting faces more scrutiny”. 
26th October 2018
Huawei announced the Mate 20 Pro, which features a fingerprint scanner embedded into the screen. With this form of authentication the most popular on smartphone users, we could see a shift in the industry where this technology is incorporated more and more into top end handsets.
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Do consumers view convenience as more important than online security?
