In its drive to make web surfing and communications more secure Google has already started warning users when they visit HTTP pages. On April 27, Google has announced that it will issue security warning when users enter data on an HTTP page, and on all HTTP pages visited in Incognito mode.

Chromium team says, “Our plan to label HTTP sites as non-secure is taking place in gradual steps, based on increasingly broad criteria. Since the change in Chrome 56, there has been a 23% reduction in the fraction of navigations to HTTP pages with password or credit card forms on desktop, and we’re ready to take the next steps.

Passwords and credit cards are not the only types of data that should be private. Any type of data that users type into websites should not be accessible to others on the network, so starting in version 62 Chrome will show the “Not secure” warning when users type data into HTTP sites”.

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