The privacy-centric Blackphone is getting its own privacy app store

Can you keep a secret? The ultra-secure Blackphone is getting its own app store that only sells apps that won’t sell you out. The Blackphone is a collaboration between hardware manufacturer Geeksphone and Silent Circle, which helps you keep your communication safe from prying eyes. The phone boasts tight encryption to keep your data safe, and comes with subscriptions to services that protect your calls, texts and emails. The Blackphone app store will launch in January and will examine apps before allowing them in the store — described as “the Apple model” by Blackphone chief executive Toby Weir-Jones. “We’ll have a few degrees of vetting,” Weir-Jones told the Guardian. “If you have an app to manage your social media accounts and it wanted access to your microphone and your camera we might ask why and get on a first screening.”