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Jay Petersa news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.Gmail may add an extra verification step when you try to do things like adding a forwarding address and editing your filters, Google announced

. The extra step could help prevent a bad actor who has access to your account from filtering emails in ways you don’t expect or forwarding emails to a new address without you knowing.Filters:Adding a new forwarding address from the Forwarding and POP/IMAP settings.If you try and change those settings and Google deems the action “risky,” you’ll be prompted to verify that you are the person actually trying to make the change.

The additional protection will be available to all Google Workspace customers and people with personal Google accounts, though Google notes that “this feature only supports users that use Google as their identity provider and actions taken within Google products.” Google introduced a similar verification prompt for “sensitive actions taken in your Google Workspace account”

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