Is Chrome Remote Desktop safe?
Enables Chrome Remote Desktop to manage its native client from the web interface.
This companion extension works with the Chrome Remote Desktop website to install, view, and modify the Chrome Remote Desktop native client. Chrome Remote Desktop lets users access another computer through Chrome or a Chromebook for remote support or ongoing access to applications and files.
Who publishes itGoogle Ireland, Ltd. - 96 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Google Ireland, Ltd. - 96 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same operator - 96 listings
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Chrome Remote Desktop contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- remotedesktop.google.com
Chrome Remote Desktop sends data to remotedesktop.google.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- Googlewidely used
Chrome Remote Desktop sends data to Google. Named as a recipient by 45 other extensions we have analysed.