Forget traffic lights, Google’s reCAPTCHA may ask for hand gestures (opens in new tab)

Google has introduced hand gesture verification for reCAPTCHA, a new method for verifying that a user is human. Google’s reCAPTCHA is part of Google Cloud Fraud Defense, a fraud and abuse prevention platform for bot, account, and transaction protection. It uses risk analysis and challenge-based verification to help organizations identify automated activity and suspicious behavior. The service is commonly deployed on login pages, registration forms, password reset pages, and checkout systems, ...