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Britt Lapthorne Safety Device iPhone
« Thread Started on Oct 13, 2009, 8:30pm »

Aussie inspired by Britt Lapthorne to design iPhone app

October 14, 2009

The tragic disappearance and death of Britt Lapthorne have inspired a Melbourne man to develop an iPhone app allowing people instantly to notify loved ones if they are in trouble anywhere in the world.

The app, called "I am safe", works like a panic button in that it is programmed to send recorded voice, SMS and email messages to a predetermined list of five family and friends once activated.

A Google Map is also provided to track the user's location.

"So as soon as I fire it off, it triangulates my position by GPS and it then keeps tracking me constantly," developer Tim Hine, 64, said.

"It also then records an audio file of everything that's happening around the phone at that time and it stores that on our server at the back end for future reference, for instance, if police want it."

The app will initially only be available to iPhone users but will soon be ported to other platforms including Google's Android.

The app costs $US2.99 ($3.30) for now but will soon change to $US6.99.

Just over a year ago, Lapthorne, 21, went missing while backpacking in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik.

Her family was not contacted for six days for privacy reasons and the Melbourne woman's badly decomposed body was found almost three weeks later.

Her parents, Dale and Elke Lapthorne, travelled last month to the bay where their daughter's body was found to retrace her final steps.

They still do not know how she died and have criticised the work of Croatian police, who did not begin a formal investigation until a week after her disappearance.

Family First Senator Steve Fielding has introduced the Britt Lapthorne Bill to Parliament that would change privacy laws so that families could be notified straight away by Australian authorities if a loved one goes missing overseas and foul play is suspected.

Hine, who works in IT and markets his app through his new company, Xpertise Mobile, said he had sold "several hundred" copies so far to people in 38 countries.

"The primary objective is for the young female market - they socialise a lot and they find themselves in the city in the early hours of the morning," he said.

"[But] it can also be used by the elderly - if you've got elderly parents living on their own, they could notify you immediately if something were to happen."

The Lapthorne family could not be reached for comment.

Hine said he planned to speak to the Britt's parents about the app but did not want to upset anyone.

"It's very unfortunate what happened to her and I'm very sympathetic about it but I'm sure they'd see this as being a step in the right direction," Hine said.

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"THE DEAD CANNOT CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE IT IS A DUTY OF THE LIVING TO DO SO FOR THEM" Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness These are the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence for each of us; EXCEPT IF YOU ARE MURDERED YOU NO LONGER HAVE ANY RIGHTS. Someone took them and now THEIR RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED. is a tradgedy that doesnt help the victims or their families heal.

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