Citizen crime-tracking app, funded by Peter Thiel, scraps plans for on-demand police force

The crowdsourcing crime-tracking app Citizen, whose earliest backers include the venture capitalist billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, is ditching plans to develop a private police force that could be summoned by users via the smartphone app, CBS MoneyWatch has learned. The company began offering the service in Los Angeles last month as a pilot… Read More »

Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force

Image: TWITTER VIA BRANDON WENERD Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard’s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. Crime and neighborhood watch app Citizen has ambitions to deploy private security workers to the scene of disturbances at the request of app users, according to leaked internal Citizen documents and Citizen sources. The… Read More »