“Text me when you get home” is what we have always heard from mum, dad, sisters and friends after a night out and that, perhaps overestimating the human race, we always take a little under the thumb. The story of Sarah Everard, the girl killed in London while returning home alone after an evening with her friends, has shaken the consciences of all of us, that as soon as you get home we always forget to send that message. A shock that made any girl think, as normal it should be, to go home alone in the evening; a shock that has once again turned the tables on the safety of women in large and small cities. After the tragic case of Sarah, in fact, it emerged from a survey conducted by UN Women UK, that 7 out of 10 girls have been harassed in a public place. The data is disconcerting, but perhaps it is enough to retrace some of the evenings of all of us to realize how true and real these data are, unfortunately. Well yes, because, as always, they have to wait for the worst to happen to set off the alarm, right? Why should whistles, whispered words on the street and advances be considered conventional when these are absolutely not required? The saddest conclusion of all this, perhaps, is that gestures like these in a world made up of people who respect the female gender, should be considered courtship rituals that can also be flattered, if it were not that courtship is never a question and, unfortunately, not even of respect. It seems almost ridiculous to have to ask men, and especially their mothers, to work hard so that culture and education finally begins to change, so that there are no more women who risk their lives to lead in 2021 the daily life that every man with the most great tranquility leads, but waiting for this to happen we just have to run for cover. After the pepper spray and the house keys used as weapons, it is technology that comes to the rescue of us women. In the last few weeks there have been many downloadable security apps on our phones, as well as the Iphone SOS function, to try to get to safety and warn the police without being discovered when we happen to be involved in dangerous situations. We have selected the best ones for you girls, don’t be afraid to use them and, above all, remind to send that message, because even the most obvious gesture in the world like going home is apparently jeopardized by the society in which we live. Always with you!
Siamo Sicure! (In restyling)
Italian and downloadable for free from the App Store and the Google Play Market, We Are Safe! is an app with 3 buttons: the red one starts a previously selected high volume sound able to attract the attention of those around us, the blue one starts a call to the chosen emergency number and the orange one sends a text message with help request.
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Also downloadable for free from the App Store and Google Play Market, SecurWoman keeps women in contact 24/7 with an operations center, and is activated only by shaking the smartphone. A call will then immediately start which will allow the operations center to locate the user and alert the police.
It is a security App with different functions: it allows selected friends to follow us via GPS, activate a fake phone call in case of need, report the position and warn the people selected previously in case of emergency. There is also an SOS button which will set off an audio and video recording of what is happening.
Parachute and Sekura are two very similar and absolutely useful apps. Both have functions that allow you to initiate a fake call, sound an alarm, automatically send an emergency message and alert the police. Furthermore, Parachute, like bSafe, records audio and video what is happening by sending the recording directly to the chosen contacts.
It is a geolocation app that helps to locate very precise locations. Each 3m square has been assigned a combination of 3 simple words: a unique address with which you can locate, share and reach any place with extreme precision. Three-word addresses allow you to be precisely loca