Beta Testers for Android and Ios App Myscripps Wanted

A new company has entered the German market : Schnipps, a promising startup from Freiburg im Breisgau, has made data protection a top priority. The software provider is currently in the first phase of developing the data safe App MySchnipps . With this app, personal data can be managed securely, as if in a “safe,” and shared with others as needed.

These days, internet users everywhere leave their data, and sometimes the data of others, behind when they manage address books or birthday calendars online: whether in their email accounts, in internet forums, in communities like Myspace, Facebook, StudiVZ, or on shopping portals. This makes it easy for a hacker to gain access to names, phone numbers, and dates of birth. For some companies, this is enough to authenticate themselves for telephone support, for example. This means a person can easily impersonate someone else and use or misuse other people’s data for their own purposes. “It’s a topic that’s now receiving a lot of attention, but one that’s still being addressed too little – by companies as well as consumers,” says Michael Klaus, Managing Director of Myscripps, explaining the situation in Germany.

A virtual data safe protects the most important thing online: your own identity

Myscripps is now set to change that. “Everyone should be able to freely decide where and how their data is stored. But in order to choose a secure way, appropriate solutions are needed on the market. That is precisely what drives us and our development goal,” Klaus continues. Valuable items are insured or stored in a safe. And what is more valuable online than your own identity and your data? Only those who know the code can open the safe. With the Myscripps data safe app for smartphones, Myscripps has now created a “virtual safe” and even built in two levels of security: the person who knows the code must also obtain access authorization and can only see the data in the “safe” that has been made visible to them.

Exchange data with a snap of the fingers.

In the beta phase, the data safe app is being tested using an address book, and further applications are already being planned. It works simply: The user downloads the app to their smartphone, enters their data once, and receives a seven-digit code, a user ID. If they want to add someone to their address book, they simply have to enter that person’s user ID. The other person receives a message and can then grant or deny access. They can decide individually for each user which of their data should be visible.

The new system has many advantages:

• Each user only needs to update their own data, such as address details after a move. All authorized contacts will immediately receive the updated information.
• New contacts can be added or deleted with one click.
• With just one click, your own data in other people’s address books is also deleted. This gives you immediate control over your own privacy.
• The data is legally compliant and protected by the strictest security measures and is only visible to the recipient.
• The user has an overview at all times of who can view which of his data.
• The code enables unique identification; people with frequently used names, such as Hans Müller, particularly benefit from it.
• The code does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the person – thus the user’s anonymity is maintained until they release data.

It couldn’t be more secure: Only the user knows the data, no one else.

The data is encrypted as soon as it’s entered on the smartphone, then transmitted to the server and stored there in encrypted form. A sophisticated system of symmetric and asymmetric encryption is used. Only the user sees the data shared with them. “Even we as a company have no insight into the stored data. It arrives directly encrypted. Since we don’t store the key, hackers also have a bad hand,” explains Klaus.

Beta testers wanted!

Myscripps is looking for beta testers to help it develop the app to market. Programmers and interested testers can register at www.myschnipps.de. The first version of Myscripps will be available in English and German and will initially run on Android and iOS operating systems.