Citizen crime app shifts to testing a inner most safety on request of feature

Once upon a time, the Citizen app became as soon as is known as Vigilante, a title so spirited that Apple banned it from the App Retailer and initiated a rebranding. So in 2017 it relaunched as an app built on warning of us about shut by emergencies and documenting incidents within the name of transparency. 

A file by Motherboard unearths or no longer it is a long way no longer sticking to intelligent transparency, as leaked paperwork and sightings of safety autos in Los Angeles gift Citizen plans to supply some extra or less on-request of private safety force provider. The corporate’s $20 per month Protect provider already promises “are residing monitoring” and a “digital bodyguard” who might perchance additionally be summoned with a protected notice to negate emergency products and companies to your jam.

In accordance with a old employee cited by Motherboard, the next step is “to discover a privatized secondary emergency response community” that connects customers to private safety corporations straight away. A spokesperson referred to the safety autos as half of a “private quick response provider” or no longer it is testing as a pilot venture.

As if a think at your local Nextdoor posts might perchance no longer level to the functionality complications with that setup, intelligent final Saturday the Citizen app targeted a homeless man by posting his picture at some level of a are residing broadcast, painting him as an arsonist suspected of inflicting wildfires and promising a $30,000 reward for files leading to his arrest. Police announced on Monday that they’d arrested any person else for the alleged arson.