
Designing more secure mobile phones
February 27th, 2010 admin

Three new design innovations to tackle mobile phone crime, including a device that locks a phone and alerts the owner if it is taken away from them, have been unveiled by the UK Design Council. The prototypes were developed by teams of designers and technology experts as part of a challenge to protect mobile phone users from crimes such as mobile phone identity fraud, which rose by over 70% in 2009, to make phones more secure and to prevent unauthorised use of mobiles for electronic ‘contactless’ payments, soon to be become widespread in the UK. > > Read press release > > Read backgrounder (with video scenarios) (more…)
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