Do you itrust your other half?
Do you want to donate some money to the people affected by the Haiti earthquake? There’s an app for that. Want to have a baby? There’s an app for that too. Want to stop your partner checking your text messages and emails? You guessed it. There’s an app for that as well.
For only 59 pence, the itrust application takes a screen shot of your iphone and when the phone is locked, mimics that homescreen. It means that the phone looks like it always does, but no one except you is able to access it. When you return to unlock the device, the application uses fingerprint recognition to tell you if someone tried to access your phone while you were gone – and will even playback a video of the buttons they tried to press.
There’s no getting away from the fact that online safety and social networking privacy is a huge issue. The importance of keeping certain details out of the public domain is clear. But keeping them secret from your loved ones is perhaps another matter.
According to the app’s blurb – 67% of women check their boyfriend’s phones regularly. But surely, the very action of downloading this app marks you out as having something to hide and negates the point?
If you do want to keep your texts and messages private, you might be better off using the phones passcode option. This is, after all, completely free. And less glaringly obvious.
- Katie Chappelle, digital media manager
For only 59 pence, the itrust application takes a screen shot of your iphone and when the phone is locked, mimics that homescreen. It means that the phone looks like it always does, but no one except you is able to access it. When you return to unlock the device, the application uses fingerprint recognition to tell you if someone tried to access your phone while you were gone – and will even playback a video of the buttons they tried to press.
There’s no getting away from the fact that online safety and social networking privacy is a huge issue. The importance of keeping certain details out of the public domain is clear. But keeping them secret from your loved ones is perhaps another matter.
According to the app’s blurb – 67% of women check their boyfriend’s phones regularly. But surely, the very action of downloading this app marks you out as having something to hide and negates the point?
If you do want to keep your texts and messages private, you might be better off using the phones passcode option. This is, after all, completely free. And less glaringly obvious.
- Katie Chappelle, digital media manager
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