{"id":119812,"date":"2025-11-03T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/119812\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:31:11","slug":"chrome-can-now-autofill-your-passport-drivers-license-and-vehicle-registration-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/119812\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome can now autofill your passport, driver&#8217;s license, and vehicle registration info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/chrome\/enhanced-autofill\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on Monday that its Chrome browser can now fill in your passport, driver\u2019s license, vehicle registration, and more as part of its auto-fill feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The addition expands Chrome\u2019s existing ability to automatically fill in your addresses, passwords, and payment information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Desktop users who have enhanced autofill enabled will see their passport and driver\u2019s license number, vehicle information \u2014 like their license plate or VIN \u2014 and more automatically filled in on webpages when they\u2019re prompted to enter them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google says Chrome can now also better understand complex forms and varied formatting requirements, which will improve accuracy across the web.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"525\" width=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wagtailvideo-90f_qv3k_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3064567\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tech giant notes that Chrome only saves autofill data when you give it permission to do so, and that the browser will protect this information through encryption. Additionally, before Chrome fills in saved information on your behalf, it will ask you to confirm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These new updates are available globally in all languages starting Monday. In the coming months, Chrome plans to add support for even more data types, the company says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday\u2019s announcement comes as Google has been adding additional functionality to Chrome to make it more helpful amid the surge of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/21\/openais-new-browser-is-a-broadside-shot-at-google\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new AI browsers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few weeks ago, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/18\/google-brings-gemini-in-chrome-to-us-users-unveils-agentic-browsing-capabilities-and-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rolled out Gemini in Chrome<\/a> to\u00a0all Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S. after previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/20\/google-is-launching-a-gemini-integration-in-chrome\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">limiting the capability to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers<\/a>. The tech giant also announced at the time that it plans to bring agentic capabilities to Chrome in the future, add its AI Mode search feature to the address bar, launch new Gemini features, use AI to combat AI-generated scams, roll out automatic password resets, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other smaller features that have launched on Chrome recently include a new tool that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/10\/google-chrome-silences-those-pesky-notifications\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">automatically disables browser notifications<\/a> for the websites you haven\u2019t interacted with recently, along with a feature that makes it easier to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/21\/chrome-for-ios-makes-it-easier-to-switch-between-work-and-personal-google-accounts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">switch between work and personal Google accounts<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google announced on Monday that its Chrome browser can now fill in your passport, driver\u2019s license, vehicle registration,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30684,1711,30457,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-119812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}