On New Year's Eve of 2016, in what is being called the largest public "mass molestation" in India, groups of men teamed up and molested thousands of women on the streets of Bangalore, India's technology hub. It was not the first time that the question of women's safety in public spaces has come up.After the publicized gang rape of a woman in Delhi back in 2012, various solutions have been proposed for women's safety‚ given that rape is the fourth most common crime in the country. Some included better policing and death penalties for rapists. Other solutions involved a plethora of mobile apps and wearable technologies—from mobile panic buttons to the electric-shock bra that "delivers a 3800kv electric shock to any would-be rapist, enough to cause severe burns."The vast majority of mobile apps for women's safety have two major features: to send calls or messages to a group of contacts (usually family and friends, sometimes police), and to track a woman's location by GPS. These have become so popular that even national and city governments have started releasing their own apps. The Indian government recently ruled that all mobile phones sold from 2017 must have a built-in panic button. From 2018, they must include GPS navigation systems.Continue reading on Motherboard.