Disposable addresses would make Gmail a privacy powerhouse

Your email address can be a liability for online security, but it doesn’t have to go that way.

- ALAINA YEE

Your email address is a liability when yet another of your accounts get hacked. After your login credentials are leaked, attackers can use those same credentials to try logging into different services across the web to see what else they might unlock.

But there’s a better way—and Google seems poised to bring it to the masses. As spotted by Android Authority (fave. co/3CVU0oj), a new Shielded Email feature in the Gmail app for Android devices is seemingly on the way. It would let you create disposable email addresses, temporary burner email addresses that forward email to your real account.