Your IT department may one day control whether you can view your laptop screen or not — remote display permission features could become reality for business, for better or worse

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Working from an office can be complicated at the best of things, and things look set to get more so with a new tool aimed at protecting screens from unwanted eyeballs of all kinds.

Laptop Switchable Privacy from Rain Technology is aimed at so-called Tier 1 manufacturers like Apple, Dell, HP, Huawei and Lenovo, and looks to protect screens against hackers and people snooping, especially in vulnerable settings like cafes, planes, trains, subways and taxis.