For your safety, please take the time to read this post. I was recently introduced to an online Security Measure that could prove to be very important to the safety of real estate agents. How many times have you walked into a vacant house and felt like it would be nice if someone knew where you were in case of emergency? This program may be just the solution we have been looking for. Here is part of the email I received. I encourage everyone to sign up for this program. Be SAFE.
From the email: Imagine walking in a mall parking lot and seeing a suspicious van circling nearby. Or maybe you're a college freshman and your roommates are headed out to an off-campus party in an unfamiliar section of your college town. Or you are a single mom moving to a new city seeing houses with a real estate agent whom you've never met.
Just snap a photo of the van's license plate, your location in the college town or the real estate agent and house and send the photo to My Mobile Witness. This groundbreaking new cell phone service is designed to become a personal security device used by the nearly 250 million mobile phone users in the U.S. My Mobile Witness stores photos or text and warehouses the information for the sole use by law enforcement authorities.
The breakthrough technology is fast and simple to use: an individual takes a photo or creates a text message and sends it to their individual account where it is stored in the My Mobile Witness digital vault. The photo is time-stamped and stored on a secure site accessible only to law enforcement officials who have limited "active case" or subpoena access to the information when the images may be relevant.
When an account holder sends a picture or text message it creates a record of their individual situation, to be used as a warning if someone later threatens them with harm. "If the situation warrants," says former FBI special agent Ron Knight, "you can tell the individual, 'I have already sent your image/my location/your license plate, etc., to My Mobile Witness. If I am harmed in any way, evidence has already been posted and is accessible to law enforcement. If nothing happens to me nothing happens to the picture.'"
Although he serves as chief security consultant for My Mobile Witness, Knight has a very personal desire to see this service widely implemented, especially among younger cell phone users.
"My son recently went off to college, and like any parent, I hope my child will make the right choices, but realistically, not all 18-year-olds do," said Knight. "I know there may be opportunities where he goes to a party, a frat house or bar and encounters a situation that is potentially dangerous. With this technology -- should a problem arise he has a deterrent, a tool to make himself safer.
With more than 23 years experience with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Knight has seen many crimes with tragic results that may have had a different outcome had My Mobile Witness technology been available. Though Knight has participated in such high profile crimes as Waco, Ruby Ridge, Columbine and the Texas 7 prison escapees, he has also seen numerous lesser known cases in which knowing a victim's last location, or the person a victim was last seen with, may have resulted in a better outcome or the apprehension of a guilty party.
SOURCE My Mobile Witness
http://www.mymobilewitness.com
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