Technology rarely invents new societal problems.
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"Users of apps like Citizen, Nextdoor, and Neighbors should be vigilant about unverified claims"
These apps are often designed with a goal of crowd-sourced surveillance, like a digital neighborhood watch.
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But instead, they often exacerbate the same dangers, biases, and problems that exist within policing....
But in practice they have been a mountain lion roaming your city cesspool of racial profiling, cop-calling, gatekeeping, and fear-spreading.
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Citizen takes that old problem and digitizes it, making those knee-jerk sightings of so-called suspicious behavior capable of being broadcast to hundreds, if not thousands of people in the area.
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There is a massive difference between listening to police scanners, a medium that reflects the ever-changing and updating nature of fluid situations on the street, and taking one second of that live broadcast and turning it into a fixed, unverified, news report.
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