The scam call your mother won’t recognise
Family Auto-Shield notifies someone she trusts before she acts on a fraud call — the one intervention point that still works.
Your mother answers a call. The number isn’t in her contacts but it sounds local. The voice on the other end says something has happened to a grandchild and the family needs to send money quickly. She is about to drive to the bank.
This call is on a known fraud-reputation feed. You are in a meeting two thousand miles away. The best intervention point is simple: someone she trusts gets a notification before she leaves the house. That is what Family Auto-Shield is.
What the plan actually includes
Full Pro coverage for up to five members and 25 email identities, on one $24.99 bill.
KnytX Shield for Families is the Pro tier, replicated for five members, billed once. Each member can be a teenager in minor mode, a partner in adult mode, or an elderly parent in elderly mode. The routing changes; the underlying coverage doesn’t.
Five members with five email identities each is twenty-five verified inboxes under one $24.99 subscription. For comparison: DeleteMe charges roughly $329 per year for a four-person family plan with one email each (DeleteMe pricing as of early 2026; check their current rates before comparing). The maths is uncomfortable for them.
Why per-member privacy matters
The plan owner sees the Family Score and billing — never another member’s breach contents, passwords, or inbox.
A family plan that lets the plan owner read every member’s breach data is a surveillance product, not a privacy product. KnytX Shield for Families is built on the inverse assumption. The person paying the bill sees what’s needed to make decisions — not what’s needed to read your teenager’s email.
The plan owner sees: the aggregate Family Score, billing, scam-call notifications routed by Family Auto-Shield, and the list of enrolled members and their consent state. The plan owner does not see: another member’s breach contents, exposed passwords, dark-web findings, or social-impersonation alerts. Each member retains the legal right to download or delete their own data without the plan owner’s involvement.
Minor mode in plain language
Under-18 members get tighter defaults, plain-language scam alerts, and their own private dashboard.
Children under 18 default to a tighter posture. Their names get stripped from public people-search sites where the broker accepts a minor opt-out. Social-impersonation monitoring runs at higher sensitivity. Scam-pretext alerts come through in language a 14-year-old can actually parse, not security-engineer jargon. The plan owner gets aggregate alerts and the right to enrol the minor. The minor still has their own dashboard and their own learning curve.
Minor mode automatically converts to adult mode on the 18th birthday with a soft prompt. The member can keep the tightened defaults if they want.
Elderly mode is opt-in, not surveillance
Elderly mode is enabled by a member with their own consent — typically prompted by an adult child during onboarding. Once enabled, scam-call notifications route to the plan owner. The enrolled member can disable it from their own dashboard at any time without the plan owner’s approval. We treat this as a consent decision, not a permission decision. Monitoring an adult — even an ageing parent — should be the member’s call, not the bill payer’s.