Image Recognition
Crime and neighborhood watch app Citizen put a bounty on an innocent man, unfairly using his name and image in a failed attempt to catch a suspected arsonist as it tried to grow its vigilante business at the cost of individual privacy. The app had just launched a new livestreaming service called OnAir to try and catch criminals on the air while tens of thousands of users watch. "FIND THIS F***," Frame told his employees over Slack, according to Motherboard. Ultimately, the Los Angeles police arrested the arsonist, but it wasn't the man Citizen had accused, put a bounty on, and promoted for many hours on its platform. Citizen was first launched as an app called "Vigilante" in 2016 as a company focused on alerting people to a crime as it happened and then using the crowdsourced intelligence of its users to try and stop the crime without needing the police to interfere.