IDG Contributor Network: Protecting yourself from Google’s protection racket

About a week ago at Google I/O, Google said it would begin testing in June an alternative to passwords. People have been talking about eliminating passwords for years. They’re hard to remember, particularly when one has dozens of them. Some people have hundreds.
And people tend to mismanage them — the classic sticky note on the side of the monitor is only the best example. So, Google is proposing to use a mix of biometric and other data from users’ Android phones. This data is