Chipmaker Qualcomm along with a startup company known as Truepic are actually testing a particular feature designed for Android phones that somehow automatically tags both the location and the time that an image was captured.
Feature aims to help track down emergencies and truth searching
According to an article by Wired, a particular prototype app coming from the San Diego startup company known as Truepic actually aims to be able to make smartphone videos and photos a little bit more trustworthy. Truepic is working with the mobile chipmaker known as Qualcomm to be able to add a brand new mode to the smartphone's own camera that securely tags any images with the both the location and time that they were captured.
The article states that this could potentially help unfold certain disastrous areas that were affected by the hurricanes and through the use of photos, the authorities could then respond and deal with the damage.
The feature is actually designed to be able to support a sort of standard for digital images that are being developed by a certain group called the Content Authenticity Initiative that well includes Adobe, Twitter, and also the New York Times. The whole system will allow the videos and images to actually be tagged with the known cryptographically encoded information on both where and also how they were captured.
Truepic and Qualcomm's statements regarding the app feature
According to Truepic's vice president Sherif Hanna, they think that the whole way to be able to get the feature out there is to actually make it a sort of native function of the known app that people use on their own devices. The collaboration could possibly be quite influential well because Qualcomm chips actually power Android smartphones from big brands even including Samsung.
Qualcomm's vice president Manvinder Singh notes that there is definitely an interest although actually declining the names of any given companies. The said photo-tagging code that was developed by Truepic actually runs inside a much secure area of the device's own processor that actually handles certain tasks just like processing payments or even fingerprint scanning.
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The feature has been successful on its prototype
An article by AP News recently announced that Truepic Inc., the known leader of the provenance-based photo as well as video authentication, has been able to successfully achieve the world's very first native integration of the said hardware-secured photo capture.
This was done in a particular prototype mobile device that is powered by Qualcomm's very own Snapdragon 865 5G Mobile Platform. The device is said to produce photos that come with particular cryptographically-sealed providence data whose actual authenticity can then be verified by certain recipients.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
