US Patent 7987277 Safety information transmission device

A safety information transmission device includes a reception unit that receives, via a network, safety information indicating whether or not a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal if biometric authentication of the user is successful, and a control unit that determines, when a contact method is a contact by an electronic message and a contact destination address is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information to the electronic message address.