NEW YORK—As the pandemic persists and more consumers shift to online purchases, new solutions are being introduced with a goal of better protecting shoppers’ ecommerce buys.
1Password announced a new partnership with Privacy.com that gives 1Password users the option to use virtual credit cards to protect themselves from fraud. 1Password is a password manager, digital vault, form filler and secure digital wallet.
After signing up and enabling the feature in the 1Password X Chrome extension, users will receive a prompt each time they try to make an online credit card purchase asking if they’d like to use a virtual card instead.
“The virtual cards create unique payment credentials for an individual service for one time use, or you can save a virtual card to continually use for payments on the service in the future,” Gizmodo explained.