{"id":230993,"date":"2017-09-28T16:55:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=230993"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:57:29","slug":"google-removes-nfc-smart-unlock-from-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/230993-google-removes-nfc-smart-unlock-from-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Google removes NFC Smart Unlock from Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is removing the NFC Smart Unlock feature from Android for\u00a0new logins, reported <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/google-removes-nfc-smart-unlock-from-android-with-no-warning-or-explanation-517846.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Softpedia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the removal of the function &#8211; which\u00a0allowed a phone to act as a security token based on the NFC technology &#8211; was a strange decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn\u2019t an old technology, and if anything, it was just starting to take off,&#8221; stated Softpedia.<\/p>\n<p>It said that Google has made the change &#8220;without telling people and without explaining the reasons behind it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmartLock NFC feature has been deprecated for new users. If you are not existing NFC users, the option will be hidden,&#8221; said the\u00a0Google Issue Tracker.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/230867-firefox-quantum-the-fastest-firefox-ever.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Firefox Quantum \u2013 The fastest Firefox ever<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is removing the NFC Smart Unlock feature from Android for\u00a0new logins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[397,1859],"class_list":["post-230993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-android","tag-nfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230999,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230993\/revisions\/230999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}