{"id":3320,"date":"2014-03-07T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/uk\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:32:31","slug":"step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/3320\/","title":{"rendered":"Step-By-Step: How To Remotely Lock A Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our smartphones might have content we do not want others to see, even friends and relatives. Imagine the situation: you are planning a birthday surprise for your significant other and are keeping the to-do list in the notes on your device. Accidentally, you forget your phone at home. Now, the plan could be revealed and the surprise ruined.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t fret! We have an option for you to protect your notes from prying eyes. You may already know that you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how-to-wipe-data-from-a-lost-device\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wipe sensitive data from a lost phone<\/a>\u00a0using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/android-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kaspersky\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/android-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Internet Security\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/android-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">for<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/android-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Android<\/a>. 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Imagine the situation: you are planning a birthday surprise for your significant other and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":3321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3840],"class_list":{"0":"post-3320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-products","8":"tag-kaspersky-for-android"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/3320\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/3063\/"},{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/2965\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/3352\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/4029\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/2911\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/4029\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/step-by-step-how-to-remotely-lock-a-device\/4029\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/kaspersky-for-android\/","name":"Kaspersky for Android"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23261,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/23261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}