Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes
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#2Surprised that they need to pay. Plenty do it just for the views.
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#3Citizen seems to be taking the uber/airbnb "do it until we are big enough to make it legal" approach to... crime.
Weird combo. I bet their legal war chest is bulky.
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#4Citizen seems to be taking the uber/airbnb "do it until we are big enough to make it legal" approach to... crime. Weird combo. I bet their legal war chest is bulky.
Does Citizen break regulations in some way? I thought that filming crime and police was solidly legal.
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#5So, Uber-for-Nightcrawlers?
Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(film)
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#6Two related threads on Citizen in the last few months:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27237520
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236660
They reference each other, too.
Citizen is nightmarish. All the “it’s a dystopian surveillance app built to exploit our worst fears” concerns about other social media products with only the most superficial veneer trying to hide it. I had it on my phone for months and it contributed absolutely nothing but anxiety.
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#7Citizen seems to be taking the uber/airbnb "do it until we are big enough to make it legal" approach to... crime. Weird combo. I bet their legal war chest is bulky.
Does Citizen break regulations in some way? I thought that filming crime and police was solidly legal.
I mean, sharing your car is legal but that's not really what Uber ever was.
Re: Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes
#8Citizen seems to be taking the uber/airbnb "do it until we are big enough to make it legal" approach to... crime. Weird combo. I bet their legal war chest is bulky.
Does Citizen break regulations in some way? I thought that filming crime and police was solidly legal.
> I thought that filming crime and police was solidly legal.
Filming anything from a public space (street, sidewalk, etc) is legal, even if it's of a private space that is visible from public space. For example, if I'm on a public sidewalk next to your private residence, and you have the blinds open walking around naked - you have no reasonable expectation of privacy and can be filmed even though you're on your private property. Just like if you're driving on the public street and I have a ring doorbell camera, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy driving down the street, or walking on the sidewalk, and I can record you.
Re: Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes
#9Citizen seems to be taking the uber/airbnb "do it until we are big enough to make it legal" approach to... crime. Weird combo. I bet their legal war chest is bulky.
Does Citizen break regulations in some way? I thought that filming crime and police was solidly legal.
They just haven't been sued yet by the family of a user who has been killed while filming a violent crime.
When they do their insurance costs will become astronomical. This pay structure encourages users to put themselves in harm's way.
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#10What is Citizen's endgame here? Do they want to be some vigilante justice group? A private army? Protection racket?