Privacy is one of the main concerns for the users. Over the years the tech firms are trying to find means to overcome this problem. Here we are discussing virtual on-screen data privacy, means whenever you are using your mobile in public, sitting somewhere like in airplane no one sees your on-screen activities.
There are some screen protectors available in market for preventing people to look over your data but these screen shields possibly not applied to everything.
Now engineers at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) are looking for a way to protect display screens with the built-in privacy display. That’s sound astonishing! According to Patently mobile reports, it seems that Microsoft is looking into creating a display for computers and mobile devices that will give its user the privacy they need. Fundamentally this new screen protection method uses a backlight system that will enable only the user looking directly at the screen to view the content on the screen.
This means that people sitting alongside you won’t be able to see what’s going on your screen because of the backlighting angular intensity profiles. It needs a suitable direction or angles for viewing something on the screen.
Microsoft’s patent isn’t new as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has also proposed a similar idea in 2011. On the basis of Apple’s idea, a narrow cone of light would enable the user viewing the content sitting in front of the display, thus preventing the nearer persons from seeing your activities. Apple hasn’t yet release its “Privacy Mode” screen tool. Similarly, Microsoft hasn’t yet given a timeline for the release of this patent.
