A new type of login is easier and safer to use than passwords—with caveats.
Nicole Nguyen
Personal Tech columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Nicole Nguyen is a Personal Tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, covering how technology companies' products and policies affect people's lives.
Her stories explore all aspects of consumer technology, in particular new innovations related to mobile devices, cybersecurity, digital privacy, e-bikes and health and fitness. She has also written about fraud in e-commerce marketplaces and what happens when connected gadgets reach the end of their lives.
Before joining the Journal, she was a reporter covering tech giants at BuzzFeed News. Nicole lives in Paris with, to her husband’s great dismay, zero cats or dogs.
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