Patent ID: 8893247

Claim:
A system comprising: a multimedia-capture device; a non-transitory computer readable medium; and program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer readable medium and executable by at least one processor to cause a first computing device to: receive a command to send message data to a second computing device, wherein the second computing device is associated with a contact; determine that the contact associated with the second computing device is a trusted contact; based on (i) receiving the command to send the message data and (ii) determining that the contact associated with the second computing device is a trusted contact, cause the multimedia-capture device to capture multimedia data of the real-world surroundings of the first computing device; and transmit trusted-contact data to the second computing device associated with the trusted contact, wherein the trusted-contact data comprises (i) the message data, (ii) the multimedia data, and (iii) environmental data that corresponds to at least one environmental condition of the first computing device.