{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/crime-app-citizen-puts-bounty-on-an-innocent-man/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Crime app Citizen puts bounty on an innocent man","slug":"crime-app-citizen-puts-bounty-on-an-innocent-man","createdLocal":"2021-05-29 14:30:54.828552","publishDate":"2021-05-28 21:12:11.324000","feedName":"Image Recognition","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime-app-citizen-bounty-innocent-man"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>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.\nThe 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.\n\"FIND THIS F***,\" Frame told his employees over Slack, according to Motherboard.\nUltimately, 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.\nCitizen 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.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"crime-app-citizen-puts-bounty-on-an-innocent-man"}}}