Lookout, a San Francisco-based mobile security company, is launching a product that will send victims a photograph of the thief who snatched their mobile phone.
The “theftie” is triggered when someone enters a wrong passcode, removes the SIM card or turns the device off, and is sent with a map of the device’s exact location to the registered user.
Politicians in both the US and the UK have been pressuring phone companies to do more to help prevent mobile phone theft. One in 10 smartphone owners in the US, UK, France and Germany have been a victim of phone theft, according to a report by IDG Research on behalf of Lookout.
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