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Community Manager1Password now available in Comet, the AI-powered browser by Perplexity
Hi all, thanks for raising these questions and sharing your concerns.
At 1Password, our guiding principles are privacy, security, and transparency, and ensuring people can use the tools they choose safely. We know AI and new browsing technologies raise important questions, which is why our role is to give people choice without compromising trust.
To clarify a few points about our partnership with Perplexity on the Comet browser:
- Your data remains private. Nothing about this partnership changes how 1Password works. Vaults are end-to-end encrypted, and neither Perplexity nor Comet has access to your information. Your secrets remain encrypted and never leave your control.
- The extension is the same. The 1Password browser extension works in Comet exactly as it does in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and other Chromium-based browsers. There is no special integration that exposes additional data.
- This is about choice. Our customers want us to be where they are. For those who want to try Comet, we are ensuring their login and autofill experience is secure, just as it is in other browsers.
We take trust seriously and will continue to make decisions with privacy, transparency, and security at the core.
- Your data remains private. Nothing about this partnership changes how 1Password works. Vaults are end-to-end encrypted, and neither Perplexity nor Comet has access to your information. Your secrets remain encrypted and never leave your control.
When 1Password announced its partnership with Perplexity, the importance of security was emphasized: “At 1Password, we believe security must be part of the foundation when building AI products, not an afterthought.”
However, achieving that goal may be problematical, as described in this “Scamlexity” article (kudos to Seria for the reference) – which I highly recommend reading. In brief, the article makes the case that an AI Browser such as Comet “can, without your knowledge, click, download, or hand over sensitive data, all in the name of ‘helping’ you.”
More specifically, the article presents proof-of-concept security vulnerabilities using Comet. For example, watch the video in the article to witness Comet’s ability to autofill credit card details on a fictious retail website.
Is 1Password truly confident that it can deliver “Security that Enables AI Browsing” today – especially when the browsing is solely under the control of its partner Perplexity?
This is a sincere question. I encourage 1Password to considering authoring a white paper describing the company’s approach to “Security that Enables AI Browsing,” so that users of 1Password can understand the protections that have been put in place when utilizing Comet.
