By Mary-Ann Russon, International Business Times, Sept. 14, 2015 – Tens of thousands of people around the world are now using a free personal-safety mobile app that allows friends to virtually walk you home at night.
The Companion app, created by five students from the University of Michigan, enables users to request a friend or family member to keep them company virtually and track their journey home via GPS on an online map.
Although they can do so, the friend or family member does not need to have installed the Companion app, which is available for both Android and iOS.
The user can send out several requests to different phone contacts in case people are not available to be a companion or not with their phones at the time.
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