Fitness app Strava has built a business on creating friendly competition between strangers via mutual data sharing. But with around half of female joggers having been harassed while running, awareness around the impact of digital security on offline safety is increasing, and Strava has come under fire.

Dating apps may have shed much of their stigma, but they haven’t necessarily lost all of its risks. Most people on dating sites aren’t entirely honest – 81% lie on their profile. Boston-based Aste Investigators is a team of private investigators that will perform background checks on online dating suitors.

Privacy concerns and ad-dominated feeds have mainstream social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram facing a ‘trust crisis’. Subscription-based platform Vero offers an alternative with the promise of transparency and control – but is it so different from established industry giants?

With trust in Facebook on the decline, wrapper app Swipe offers a more secure way to browse the social network, boosting battery life in the process. But are we ready to step away from well-established tech giants to give power over our devices to smaller, less understood systems?