Also new is a smart card API, which will let computer manufacturers add card readers to these handhelds, effectively locking up any data they hold if the devices are lost or stolen.

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Medicare, insurers and consumers will have to exert pressure, since individual players may benefit from locking down their own data.

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One startup called Lookout offers free antivirus filtering along with features for tracking a lost phone and locking or wiping its data remotely.

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And, for Facebook, making a profit directly from Instagram may have been less important than locking up its user data and taking a rapidly growing competitor, now with more than 40 million users, off of the playing field.

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Those responsible for locking down government networks and defending data will need to be empowered with a set of strict rules.

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