{"id":1237463,"date":"2025-03-06T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237463"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:00:40","slug":"1password-introduces-nearby-items-tying-passwords-to-physical-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237463","title":{"rendered":"1Password introduces \u2018nearby items,\u2019 tying passwords to physical locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>1Password has added a new feature that allows users to tag their entries with physical locations. That way, when the user is close by a credential&#8217;s location, that information will be surfaced in the password manager&#8217;s mobile app. This &#8216;nearby items&#8217; feature makes the most relevant information quickly available to 1Password customers and cuts out the need to search for the correct details or remember exactly what you&#8217;d named an account.<\/p>\n<p>Location information can be added to any new or existing item in a 1Password vault. The app has also been updated with a map view for setting and viewing the locations of your items. In the blog post announcing the feature, the company cited examples such as door codes for a workplace, health records at a doctor&#8217;s office, WiFi access at the gym and rewards membership information for local shops as potential uses for location data.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Privacy and security are paramount for a password manager, and 1Password confirmed that a user&#8217;s location coordinates are only used locally and do not leave the device. Nearby items is available to 1Password customers starting today.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cybersecurity\/1password-introduces-nearby-items-tying-passwords-to-physical-locations-140040723.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1Password has added a new feature that allows users to tag their entries with physical locations. That way, when the user is close by a credential&#8217;s location, that information will be surfaced in the password manager&#8217;s mobile app. This &#8216;nearby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}