Citizen, Orwellian Nightmare App | Case File #77 - a podcast by Boy Genius

It's an app where people can learn about and report crimes in their neighborhood. It's designed to make us spy on each other and stoke fear. In the mid 2010s, Andrew Frame and his company launched an app called Vigilante which was literally designed to listen to police scanner broadcasts, alert users of crimes in their area, and encourage them to go...be vigilantes. The app was immediately shut down by all app stores within 48 hours. So they re-branded as Citizen, an app that's merely supposed to alert users to crimes in their area so they can be more aware of danger to avoid. However, Andrew Frame merely made his Orwellian nightmare police state app more subtle. On this episode of Deep Cuts, we dive deep into the creepy reality of Citizen.
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