India wants the phones button "panic" for women by 2017

All Mobile India will "panic" button for women by 2017

All mobile phones in India should have safety alert device, the "panic button", by 2017, to provide more assistance to women who undergo emergency situations in the country. They should also have full access to GPS tracking by 2018.

The new rules were announced to the Indian telecommunications companies to extend security to women, as it happens, at least one rape every 30 minutes in India.

From 2017, then, all women who have access to mobile phones may, by pressing the number buttons 5 or 9, send an emergency alert to operators. Already smartphones will be required to implement a new button or tool for emergency alerts.

When activated, the tool will redirect the message to a national center dedicated to this type of occurrence. This does not yet exist in India, but has implementation forecast of about 112 units across the country. The intention, when the GPS system is that any local police can also make tracking and help the victim.

"The technology was designed to make life better human being. Must therefore do it for women as soon as possible, "said Telecommunications Minister of India, Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a statement.

In the same way, Twitter has also demonstrated effort to change the drastic numbers of violence not only against women, but the world, especially online. Since last Saturday (23), all social network users can report abusive tweets: not just one or two, but five, so you can be aware of the situation context.

"Security remains the top priority of Twitter. We have many other updates to be released that will help our users to have more control of their experiences, "said the social network news disseminating post on Safety blog.