Computer firm HP has developed two new laptops that feature an optional privacy mode, which obscures the screen unless viewed face-on.<\/p>\n
The technology, called Sure View, darkens the picture by “up to 95%” when observed from wide angles.<\/p>\n
HP said the laptop can ensure privacy when used in public spaces.<\/p>\n
One analyst said it could appeal to security-conscious enterprise customers.<\/p>\n
Numerous peripherals companies already manufacture attachable glue-on screen filters that achieve the same effect, but HP claims its Sure View technology is the world’s first “integrated” privacy screen.<\/p>\n
It will launch with two new 14-inch laptops.<\/p>\n
Pressing the F2 key enables the privacy mode, which HP said can reduce “up to 95% of visible light when viewed at an angle”.<\/p>\n
HP said the technology is becoming more of a necessity because of “visual hacking”, a term it uses for infiltrating accounts by spying on people using their laptops and smartphones.<\/p>\n
‘Nothing new’<\/strong><\/p>\n Chris Green, a technology analyst for communications agency Lewis, played down the impact of HP’s technology.<\/p>\n “Angled screen view protectors are nothing new, they have been around 30 years,” he said.<\/p>\n He added that while over-the-shoulder hacking is a security issue “it’s not something that the industry is measuring with any research”.<\/p>\n But Patrick Moorhead, a principal analyst for Moor Insights & Strategy, said that integrating the filter made the tech more dependable for enterprise customers.<\/p>\n “With the glue-on filters, IT departments don’t actually know if you are using them. They may think they are managing security but they don’t know for sure if that filter is on.<\/p>\n “So to me this lowers the risk, because IT departments can program the laptops so that the filter is always on.”<\/p>\n Moorhead said the tech would be particularly useful “in environments of high security and high privacy such as healthcare, government, and even consultancy firms”.<\/p>\n He added that, while there is little research to measure the prevalence of visual hacking “anecdotally I think it happens a lot”.<\/p>\n Research conducted by the Ponemon Institute in Michigan claimed that nine out of 10 attempts to acquire sensitive business information using only visual means were successful.<\/p>\n Privacy firm 3M, which developed the Sure View technology for HP, funded Ponemon Institute’s research.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Computer firm HP has developed two new laptops that feature an optional privacy mode, which obscures the screen unless viewed face-on. The technology, called Sure View, darkens the picture by “up to 95%” when observed from wide angles. HP said the laptop can ensure privacy when used in public spaces. One analyst said it could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":243648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/243648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}