Samsung is set to launch a new privacy feature that is meant to protect users from people staring at their screens when they are in crowded public places. The feature is a leap forward in mobile privacy. This is according to the company .
The new feature that comes after over five years of work is meant to add a new layer of protection to prevent unwanted shoulder surfing of sensitive content on your screen.
With smartphones becoming the repositories of more personal data and being tailored to the individuals habits more and more, Samsung states that the people’s concerns about everyday privacy have increased accordingly especially when people are using their devices in public transport, lift, lines, and other noisy scenarios.
Privacy for Public Spaces
Samsung says the new privacy level will keep users’ intimate conversation safe even if they have no choice but to use a smartphone in a heated public place like a bus or a subway. As the technology will be discreetly integrated into everyday life, it will enhance people’s privacy without interfering with their experience of the device.
As per the company, the feature will equip people with the necessary level of comfort when they use their phones outdoors since it will be impossible to figure out the content of the screen from outside.
Customizable Protection Levels
Samsung pointed out that each person’s privacy requirements are unique. Instead of putting a blanket restriction on, the new system allows users to customize their level of protection.
Users will have the option to limit their privacy controls to certain applications, lock down parts of their phones or make actions such as password entry more private. The degree of privacy can be changed depending on the event and features like the notification pop, ups can also be saved selectively. The settings may be adjusted or completely disabled.
Flexible Protection Built Over Years
The privacy layer in question is the explicit outcome of the 5+ years of research, engineering, and testing. Samsung claims it explored the ways people use their phones, what they consider a private matter, and how security must work in their daily lives.
The end product is a mixture of hardware and software, tuned to give users a sense of security while not being intrusive at their normal phone usage.
Samsung Knox Security at the Core
Samsung states that the new service is built on the bricks of its security platform, Samsung Knox, which has been going for more than a decade. For this time period, Knox has been supplying multi, tiered security for Galaxy devices, hardware, based features like Knox Vault and ecosystem, level defenses such as Knox Matrix being among them.
The next big thing will take the security framework out of the box and into the realm of visual privacy, with Samsung detailing the protection at the pixel level.
Samsung upgrades the new tech as a standard overhaul in mobile privacy, something that users can literally see and feel.