Privacy Filters Archives

Privacy filters can provide the privacy you need to keep your and/or your customers personal information safe from onlookers. Mini louvers embedded in the material darken the screen when viewed from the side, protecting your data!


Trust Photodon's Privacy Filters for Your Smartphones and Tablets

| By Jenny Sockol

We all know how important it is to use Photodon's large format privacy filters to help maintain data security and HIPAA compliance. Similarly, have you considered a privacy filter for your smaller devices as well? In today's digitally-connected world, our smartphones, laptops, and tablets have become an extension of ourselves. We use them for everything from sending personal messages to conducting business transactions. As a result, our screens often display sensitive and private information. With the increasing concern about data breaches, protecting personal information has never been more important.

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Photodon is More Than Screen Protectors and Privacy Filters!

| By Jenny Sockol

It's true that Photodon's most commonly used capability is the custom production of screen protectors and privacy filters. But did you know that our specialties extend beyond that?

Photodon offers so many more services and products than the screen protectors and privacy filters we are known for. Just a few of these capabilities include producing monitor hoods and laptop stands, using our multiple lasers to cut and even etch screen protectors, and installing customers' screen protectors on their devices in our clean room. Watch our capabilities video to see some of our talents and abilities.

You can also keep reading to learn more about what Photodon can do.

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Computer Privacy Screens Hit the Big Time

| By Cameron McLean

Do you use a curved monitor?

If you use a curved ultrawide monitor, you know the performance and efficiency offered by this type of screen is unparalleled. These popular monitors are at the forefront of the commercial market, bringing with them some unintended security risks. In a time of ransomware, phishing, email hacking, and fraud, it is doubly important to put a complete mitigation strategy into practice. Unprotected large screens increase opportunities for threat actors to access data through snooping. The good news is that with Photodon's ultrawide computer privacy screens, your team can reduce vulnerabilities while enjoying the benefits of an ultrawide monitor setup! 

Photodon has you covered

Our filters are available to fit the most popular curved widescreen monitors on the market today, such as the Dell U4919DW and Samsung CHG90 QLED 49-inch monitors. If you don't see the monitor you need on our website, not to worry! We can cut custom-sized privacy filters based on your specifications up to a 57.9-inch diagonal. Photodon cuts computer privacy screen material to its final size in Traverse City, MI.

As experts in the field of screen protectors and privacy filters, we have served everyone from mom-and-pop shops to major corporations, and we've also fulfilled prime contracts for the United States government. Whether you are a startup just getting off the ground or a corporation with a global reach, Photodon's privacy filters will allow you to share what you want, and only what you want.

Please contact us so we can work out a solution for you at 847-377-1185, M-F 9:00 a.m – 5:00 pm EST, or email us at [email protected].

Picture of Motion R12 12.5" Rugged Tablet with privacy filter

Privacy Protection for Rugged Tablets – A Case Study

| By Jolynn Paige

Introduction

The Mascoutah Police Department of Mascoutah, IL, came to Photodon for help with solving a privacy problem.  Since coming up with custom solutions for our customers is what we do best, we were well-equipped and happy to help.

Police officers use computers in their police cars so that they have ready access to information.  A great deal of public information is retrieved through these computers — information necessary for them to do their jobs effectively. Why? Sometimes they need to get the position of other police officers in the area, or they need to look up suspect information at a crime scene. These computers — often ruggedized tablets –are also used for record-keeping and tracking vital data such as license plates.

The Mascoutah Police Department's Challenge:  Help Us Keep Public Information Protected

Lieutenant Matt S. called us and said that his department's Motion R12 Rugged tablets were installed on the dash of their squad cars.  The problem? When the officers leave the car, the screen is left in plain view, leaving the public's personal information in the database vulnerable to wandering eyes.

He wondered if we had any suggestions as to how to help keep information on the screen from being seen by people outside the car. He explained that it is their duty to protect the public's private data.

Photodon's Advice

We offered to send 5"x3" samples of our privacy filter materials to Lieutenant Matt so that he and his colleagues could decide which of our filter options would work best to solve their problem.  We offer three types of privacy filters from which they could choose:

Choice #1:
   2-way adhesive privacy filters (P2S) — meant to be installed one time and left in place; offers privacy from left to right;

Choice #2:
P4S: 4-Way Privacy Filter Silicone4-way adhesive privacy filters (P4S) — also installed once and left in place, offering privacy from left to right and top to bottom;

Choice #3:
   2-way non-adhesive privacy filters (P2L) — has the option to be taken on and off of the screen several times; offers privacy from left to right.

2-way Privacy Filter Demo
4-way Privacy Filter Demo

Results

After receiving the samples, the team of police officers decided to purchase the 2-way adhesive privacy filter for the computers in their squad cars.  Problem solved.  Here is what Lieutenant Matt had to say:

Hello Jolynn,

I installed the screen protectors the same day we received them.  They fit like a glove and the officers love them compared to the ones we had before.  
 
The overall satisfaction is a "5-star" rating.  
 I appreciate the time and assistance and will definitely relay our satisfaction with the Photodon screen protectors to other departments using the Motion R12 tablets. 

Conclusion

We love helping our customers solve problems, especially in protecting their digital gear from damage, glare, and visual data breaches.  We can make privacy filters for first responders, emergency personnel, fire departments, and more. If we don't have a particular privacy filter on our website, we will custom cut the filters for your device. Custom is what we do.

Have similar needs?

You can call us at 847-377-1185, M-F 9:00a.m – 5:00pm EST, or email us at [email protected].

Privacy Filters are perfect for protecting information in open offices

How are Privacy Filters Made and How do They Function?

| By Don Basch

Privacy filters, also known as privacy screens, are like a set of vertical blinds for your computer monitor or any device with a screen, but on a nanoscale. Most modern-day filters are only the thickness of a common business card — .012” (.3 mm). Unlike vertical blinds, the louvers are permanently set in the full open (on edge) position.

There are approximately 42 louvers in the 12-pt. letter “a” shown below. This makes for about 715 of these louvers per inch (25.4mm) and equates to thousands of mini-louvers per typical screen. The thickness of a dollar bill (.0043”) is approximately the same thickness as 2 louvers in the images below.

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More than ever, companies are being held accountable to ensuring that their clients and employee information be kept private.

Computer Privacy Screens for Curved Monitors

| By Jolynn Paige

Increasingly, companies find it essential that images, data, and other information be protected from visual hacking.

Leadership teams are making the decision to provide their employees with computer privacy screens to decrease the risk of private and/or sensitive information getting within sight of unauthorized personnel or clients.

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Privacy Filters Facilitate Hospital HIPAA Compliance

| By Jolynn Paige

Hospitals and medical offices can greatly benefit from privacy filters on their computer monitors and other electronic devices so that patient information is viewed only by those persons who are authorized to see the information.  Photodon carries three types of privacy filters: Two are adhesive (Two-way privacy filters and four-way privacy filters), and the third is non-adhesive and 2-way.  We specialize in custom cutting.

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