Abstract: An apparatus includes a data processor; a user interface; and a memory that stores data representing a contacts database. The contacts database contains a plurality of entries, where each entry has a plurality of fields including at least a name field and a contact field storing information indicating how an entity identified in the name field may be contacted. The data processor is configurable to respond to the apparatus being currently locked by a lock code to prompt a user via the user interface to enter the lock code and, if the user instead enters a predetermined text string that indicates the user wishes to obtain information descriptive of an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency, the data processor presents the user, via the user interface, with only that entry or those entries from the contacts database that are associated with the predetermined text string. The text string may be “ICE” (in case of emergency).