In addition to virus protection applications, cyberspace industry has traditional businesses in business, with regular internet users left alone to protect themselves. And the elderly, who didn’t grow up with the internet and smartphones, are probably the most vulnerable.
Zorasafe, a start -up found by Catherine Karow sisters and Ellie King Karow want to enter and help them. Their idea is to create an application that not only protects the elderly from scammers and hackers, but also teaches them how to stay safe through gamified microlearning, such as Catherine and Ellie told Techcrunch in front of the TECHCRUNCOM conference, where Zorasafe will be part of Startup Battlefield.
The app is not yet outside, but Catherine and Ellie expect to start it in a month. They said it would cost $ 12.99 a month for individual subscribers and a higher interest rate for family and group plans.
The first version of the application, Catherine explained to a phone call, will have various features, such as a function to scan QR codes for malicious software or phishing, the ability to send suspicious SMS text messages and emails to Zorasafe to check them out and share a feature to share a feature to share with a well -known users.
“We are trying to encourage the social distribution of fraud so that we can also warn the entire Zora network at the same time, so a person is notified by this fraud and then we can make sure that everyone in this community is protected immediately,” Catherine said.
Future releases will also include a feature that will allow users to get Zorasafe to participate in a suspected telephone call, so the company AI can detect whether it is a deep fraud or call. In this case, however, the application will not listen to or record the calls, according to Catherine.
Once the application detects a threat, it will return a conversation that will explain to the user what this threat was and teach them how to identify and deal with similar situations in the future, Ellie said.
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“The whole purpose of which is to build durability and hope to do so so that even if you do not interact immediately with the application, you are a little more aware of when you interact on the internet,” he added.
Ellie said the AI engine was designed to private life, making 85% of the processing on the device and only 15% in the cloud, which claimed to be “fired from your personal information before leaving your device”.
Catherine also said they are planning to do a “NFC sticker” that will be integrated into telephone cases so that users can quickly pull the app if they receive a Deepfake call or even if they fall and have to warn their carers. This is one of the ways they plan to pass around iOS restrictions on applications that follow what is happening in other applications. Another way is to have a “share in Zorasafe” on the iOS menu that will allow users to send text messages or emails to the company’s systems.
Eventually, the sisters said they wanted to extend Zorasafe to children, also to work with schools and also to start application in different languages, starting with Spanish.
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