Mobile device privacy application

1. A device, comprising:

one or more processors, implemented at least partially in hardware, to:

determine that a volume level of noise, within a particular frequency range, is greater than a threshold volume of noise;

determine whether the device is connected to a particular network;

determine that the device is to activate a privacy mode based on the volume level of noise being greater than the threshold volume of noise and based on whether the device is connected to the particular network;

obscure, based on determining that the device is to activate the privacy mode, information displayed by a display of the device;

detect a first user interaction with a first portion of the display,

the first portion being less than an entirety of the display;

reveal, based on detecting the first user interaction with the first portion of the display, first information obscured by the first portion of the display, without revealing information obscured by a remaining portion of the display,

the first portion and the remaining portion comprising the entirety of the display;

detect a second user interaction with a second portion of the display;

reveal, based on detecting the second user interaction with the second portion of the display, second information obscured by the second portion of the display; and

delay obscuring the first information for a particular amount of time after detecting the second user interaction with the second portion of the display.

2. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when determining that the device is to activate the privacy mode, are further to:

detect a quantity of faces within a vicinity of the device; and

determine that the device is to activate the privacy mode based on the quantity of faces satisfying a threshold.

3. The device of claim 2 , where the quantity of faces includes a quantity of faces that are angled within a particular range of angles with respect to the device.

4. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when determining that the volume level of noise is greater than the threshold volume of noise, are further to:

determine that the volume level of noise, within a range between about 85 hertz and about 255 hertz, is greater than the threshold volume of noise.

5. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when determining that the device is to activate the privacy mode, are further to:

detect a quantity of other devices within a vicinity of the device; and

determine that the device is to activate the privacy mode based on the quantity of other devices satisfying a threshold.

6. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when detecting the user interaction with the first portion of the display, are further to:

detect that a user has touched or is touching the first portion of the display.

7. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when obscuring information displayed by the display of the device, are further to:

decrease a brightness level of the display; and

where the one or more processors, when revealing the first information obscured by the first portion of the display, are further to:

increase a brightness level of the first portion of the display.

8. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when obscuring the information displayed by the display of the device, are further to at least one of:

replace the information with other information;

blur the information;

jumble the information;

fade the information; or

scroll or move the information.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by a processor of a device, cause the processor to:

determine that a volume level of noise, within a particular frequency range, is greater than a threshold volume of noise;

determine whether the device is connected to a particular network;

determine that the device is to activate a privacy mode based on the volume level of noise being greater than the threshold volume of noise and based on whether the device is connected to the particular network;

obscure, based on determining that the device is to activate the privacy mode, information displayed by a display of the device;

detect a first user interaction with a first portion of the display;

reveal, based on detecting the first user interaction with the first portion of the display, first information obscured by a first corresponding portion of the display,

the first corresponding portion corresponding to the first portion of the display,

the first corresponding portion being revealed without revealing information obscured by a remaining portion of the display, and

the first corresponding portion and the remaining portion comprising an entirety of the display;

detect a second user interaction with a second portion of the display;

reveal, based on detecting the second user interaction with the second portion of the display, second information obscured by a corresponding second portion of the display,

the corresponding second portion corresponding to the second portion of the display; and

obscure the first information based on the second interaction,

the first information being obscured after a particular amount of time has elapsed.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the processor to determine that the device is to activate the privacy mode, further cause the processor to:

detect a quantity of faces within a vicinity of the device; and

determine that the device is to activate the privacy mode based on the quantity of faces satisfying a threshold.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the processor to determine that the volume level of noise is greater than the threshold volume of noise, further cause the processor to:

determine that the volume level of noise, within a range between about 85 hertz and about 255 hertz, is greater than the threshold volume level of noise.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the processor to determine that the device is to activate the privacy mode, further cause the processor to:

detect a quantity of other devices within a vicinity of the device; and

determine that the device is to activate the privacy mode based on the quantity of other devices satisfying a threshold.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the processor to detect the first user interaction with the first portion of the display, further cause the processor to:

detect that a user has touched or is touching the first portion of the display.

14. A method, comprising:

determining, by a device, that a volume level of noise, within a particular frequency range, is greater than a threshold volume of noise;

determining, by the device, whether the device is connected to a particular network;

determining, by the device, that the device is to activate a privacy mode based on the volume level of noise being greater than the threshold volume of noise and based on whether the device is connected to the particular network;

obscuring, by the device and based on determining that the device is to activate the privacy mode, information displayed by a display of the device;

detecting, by the device, a first user interaction with a first portion of the display,

the first portion being less than an entirety of the display;

revealing, by the device and based on detecting the first user interaction, first information obscured by the first portion of the display;

detecting, by the device, a second user interaction with a second portion of the display,

the second portion being less than the entirety of the display and being different from the first portion;

revealing, by the device and based on detecting the second user interaction, second information obscured by the second portion of the display; and

obscuring, by the device and based on detecting the second user interaction, the first information,

the obscuring the first information being delayed a particular amount of time after detecting the second user interaction.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

detecting a quantity of faces within a vicinity of the device; and

determining that the device is to activate the privacy mode based on the quantity of faces satisfying a threshold.

16. The method of claim 15 , where the quantity of faces includes a quantity of faces that are angled within a particular range of angles with respect to the device.

17. The method of claim 14 , where detecting the first user interaction with the first portion of the display includes:

detecting that a user has touched or is touching the first portion of the display, and

where detecting the second user interaction with the second portion of the display includes:

detecting that a user has touched or is touching the second portion of the display.

18. The method of claim 14 , where obscuring the information displayed by the display of the device further comprises at least one of:

decreasing a brightness level of the display;

replacing the information with other information;

blurring the information;

jumbling the information;

fading the information; or

scrolling or moving the information.

19. The device of claim 1 , where the second portion of information corresponds to a portion of the information displayed on the display that is within an area centered around a location associated with the second user interaction, and

where the one or more processors are further to:

detect another user interaction with the display; and

increase a size of the area centered around the location associated with the second user interaction based on detecting the other user interaction,

increasing the size of the area causing additional information to be revealed.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , where the second information corresponds to a portion of the information displayed on the display that is within an area defined by a particular shape,

where the particular shape is centered around a location, on the display, associated with the second user interaction, and

where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

detect another user interaction with the display,

where the other user interaction comprises a different type of user interaction than the first user interaction and the second user interaction; and

modify, based on detecting the other user interaction, a characteristic of the particular shape.