Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops

Keeping the police honest:

Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic: "Which is what makes two new apps, CopRecorder and OpenWatch, and their Web component, OpenWatch.net, so interesting. They are the brainchildren of Rich Jones, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate who describes himself as 'pretty much a hacker to the core.' Flush with cash and time from a few successful forays into the app market, nine months ago Jones decided to devote some of his time to developing what he calls 'a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures.'"