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Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by gnicholas on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:05PM (#27239968)
It sounds like the current $20 offering is to have a remote employee monitoring you when you walk home alone, or the like. The contemplated new service, Protect, is not currently available to the public, and there's nothing indicating it would be $20/mo.

My guess is there will be tiers based on anticipated usage, like AAA. Want X number of monthly reports? That costs $Y. If you want 2X the reports and expedited response time, it costs $2Y.

Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by cutemonster on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:37PM (#27240832)
People paying for getting really intrusively surveiled?
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by walleeee on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:59PM (#27241000)
A friend startup-pitched exactly this idea (remote monitoring by request, e.g. late-night walks home) to me 6 years ago and found me less enthusiastic than he had perhaps hoped, it's strange to think about how many people might converge on similar ideas at the roughly same time

Not particularly surprised to see it realized in this way

Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by qualudeheart on Saturday May 22, 2021 @03:54AM (#27244490)
I have a few surveillance ideas more interesting than that but think they are immoral.

It’s sad that someone else will implement them anyway.

Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by olyjohn on Friday May 21, 2021 @11:15PM (#27243049)
The same poor employee will be sitting there making shit pay, monitoring 30 people simultaneously. Then they will get bored and fall asleep and miss when something really happens.