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“Fuck snitches, fuck Citizen, fuck Andrew Frame and remember, kids: Cops are not your friends,” someone on the dark web recently wrote. That same person claims to have scraped and leaked data from the aforementioned crime reporting app—including information about some 1.7 million public safety “incidents” recorded and cataloged by the company, Motherboard first reported.
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Citizen, whose CEO is the colorfully referenced Mr. Frame, functions as a real-time public safety notification system, alerting users to suspected criminal activity in their geographical area via police scanner information and user-submitted reports. Recently, the company raised some eyebrows when it announced that it will launch its own app-based privatized law enforcement service, thereby basically becoming Omni Consumer Products from