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Inside Citizen, the App That Asks You to Report on the Crime Next Door
From its need to make money to its ever-changing relationship with law enforcement, the hyperlocal news-reporting app faces growing pains.
The first thing you see when you open Citizen is a map. It is an app that always runs in dark mode, the black grids of New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, Los Angeles—any of the 19 cities where the app is currently available—splayed across the screen. Pinch and zoom and you’ll see dots show up on the map. Each one indicates a local crisis: a fire, an assault, a man wielding two tridents. All this geolocated information is gleaned from the city’s emergency scanners and filtered through Citizen employees, who compile the incidents and place them on the map. The app’s always-on location awareness is a necessity. If the incident is in your neighborhood, the app sends you a push notification about the potential danger. If Citizen decides you’re really close, a button appears to let you livestream what’s happening.
👀 👉🏼 https://www.wired.com/story/citizen/
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From its need to make money to its ever-changing relationship with law enforcement, the hyperlocal news-reporting app faces growing pains.
The first thing you see when you open Citizen is a map. It is an app that always runs in dark mode, the black grids of New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, Los Angeles—any of the 19 cities where the app is currently available—splayed across the screen. Pinch and zoom and you’ll see dots show up on the map. Each one indicates a local crisis: a fire, an assault, a man wielding two tridents. All this geolocated information is gleaned from the city’s emergency scanners and filtered through Citizen employees, who compile the incidents and place them on the map. The app’s always-on location awareness is a necessity. If the incident is in your neighborhood, the app sends you a push notification about the potential danger. If Citizen decides you’re really close, a button appears to let you livestream what’s happening.
👀 👉🏼 https://www.wired.com/story/citizen/
#citizen #crime #usa #thinkabout #why
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag
WIRED
Inside Citizen, the App That Asks You to Report on Crimes
From its need to make money to its ever-changing relationship with law enforcement, the hyperlocal news reporting app faces growing pains.