More devices, fewer CAPTCHAs, happier users

Cloudflare has announced an expansion of its Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood experiment, adding support for a wider range of devices including biometric authenticators like Apple's Face ID, Microsoft Hello, and Android Biometric Authentication. This will enable users to solve challenges in under five seconds with just a touch or view, without sending private biometric data to anyone. The company is also introducing support for many more hardware tokens in the experiment. Privacy remains at the center of this initiative, with all sensitive biometric data processed on the user's device and never transmitted to Cloudflare. The WebAuthn API prevents transmission of biometric information, ensuring that it stays on the user's device.