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As a primary cardholder, you can add a second cardholder as an authorized user.
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By adding the child as an authorized user, parents will be able to monitor all spending.
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Creating a solid credit history as an authorized user on a shared card.
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Parents can open a joint account with a child or add the child as an authorized user to an existing account.
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With this distinctive feature, an authorized user can unlock the smartphone simply by speaking a passphrase, without the need to use PINs, passwords or finger swipe patterns.
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Gmail service offers an option for users to access their email accounts using both a password, and a numerical code separately sent to the authorized user's mobile phone.
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Critics of Twitter say the service is vulnerable to unauthorized messages because the company hasn't widely implemented "two-factor authentication, " an extra layer of protection to ensure a person who enters a password to a digital service is the authorized user.
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Under the new rules, pre-approval offers by mail to anyone under 25 is no longer allowed, students--and anyone else under the age of 21--must prove they have sufficient income to pay off credit card debt they incur, have a parent or family member co-sign their credit card contract or be added as an authorized user on a parent's credit card rather than opening their own.
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