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"I'm Getting Arrested" App created for OWS protestors.

18 points by libraryatnight 15y ago

bartonfink 15y ago
I wonder whether you could do more with something like this, a la sousveillance?
- cryptoz 15y ago
  Yes. When the button is tapped, it should start recording audio and streaming it to a public (or private) web location. Maybe video too. Make sure that if the cops arrest a group and take all their cameras, audio and video are not lost. This needs to be made (maybe I'll start this weekend).
  - gte910h 15y ago
    The qik app nicely allows you to record video to an account which you cannot delete it from the phone, but must use the web interface (in case your phone is captured).
    - topher200 15y ago
      That's not completely true. There is the ability to easily delete uploaded videos from your phone. Qik is still my solution for this sort of thing. If you record, it immediately starts uploading. Even if you randomly close the app (by pushing the home button), it finishes the upload in the background. This makes detection difficult for the un-savvy observer.
      - gte910h 15y ago
        How? I honestly do not see how.
  - icandoitbetter 15y ago
    If you're going to do this, add the ability to retro-record (i.e. when you press the record button, the recording starts from 30 seconds in the past - meaning that you'd have to record continuously and have the 30 seconds on a cache at any given time).
    - amartya916 15y ago
      Retro-record is a great way of putting it but I think a phone app doesn't really need retro-record even in this case. However, phone integration with lookxie (http://looxcie.com/ http://looxcie.com/) might be interesting.
    - esrauch 15y ago
      Your battery would die in 1-2 hours if you were recording 24/7.
    - esrauch 15y ago
      Your battery would die in 1-2 hours if you were recording 24/7.
  - irunbackwards 15y ago
    There's already an app for Android that is similar to this, with a fitting name: http://www.gandhicam.org/app/android http://www.gandhicam.org/app/android
samstave 15y ago
its like the Sukey app - for OWS http://Sukey.org http://Sukey.org was made by Bernie Gaus to help the london protesters not get funneled into arrests...
heyrhett 15y ago
I can run android apps on iphones now?
losethos 15y ago
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VladRussian 15y ago
does it have "dead(arrested) man switch" mode? ie. the message is sent if user didn't checked in into the app for longer than, say, an hour or two (the app may buzz-remind something like 15/5 min before the time is up and also to start preserving (and/or posting it to some website) the retro-recording of the last hour as the others suggested). Otherwise, one may just not have the chance to tap the app if things get rough and fast.

I wonder whether you could do more with something like this, a la sousveillance?

cryptoz 15y ago
Yes. When the button is tapped, it should start recording audio and streaming it to a public (or private) web location. Maybe video too. Make sure that if the cops arrest a group and take all their cameras, audio and video are not lost. This needs to be made (maybe I'll start this weekend).
- gte910h 15y ago
  The qik app nicely allows you to record video to an account which you cannot delete it from the phone, but must use the web interface (in case your phone is captured).
  - topher200 15y ago
    That's not completely true. There is the ability to easily delete uploaded videos from your phone. Qik is still my solution for this sort of thing. If you record, it immediately starts uploading. Even if you randomly close the app (by pushing the home button), it finishes the upload in the background. This makes detection difficult for the un-savvy observer.
    - gte910h 15y ago
      How? I honestly do not see how.
- icandoitbetter 15y ago
  If you're going to do this, add the ability to retro-record (i.e. when you press the record button, the recording starts from 30 seconds in the past - meaning that you'd have to record continuously and have the 30 seconds on a cache at any given time).
  - amartya916 15y ago
    Retro-record is a great way of putting it but I think a phone app doesn't really need retro-record even in this case. However, phone integration with lookxie (http://looxcie.com/ http://looxcie.com/) might be interesting.
  - esrauch 15y ago
    Your battery would die in 1-2 hours if you were recording 24/7.
  - esrauch 15y ago
    Your battery would die in 1-2 hours if you were recording 24/7.
- irunbackwards 15y ago
  There's already an app for Android that is similar to this, with a fitting name: http://www.gandhicam.org/app/android http://www.gandhicam.org/app/android

its like the Sukey app - for OWS http://Sukey.org http://Sukey.org was made by Bernie Gaus to help the london protesters not get funneled into arrests...

heyrhett 15y ago

I can run android apps on iphones now?

losethos 15y ago

God says... gracious multitude City mixture reputation alternatively firmly whether Altar commandments safe beauty vile odour consisteth which Luxury alms Apostolic pile password disapproveth cogito intervals frozen became changeableness table justly Substance enlarge reserved stumbling hurting ascend returned astonished preference parent

VladRussian 15y ago

does it have "dead(arrested) man switch" mode? ie. the message is sent if user didn't checked in into the app for longer than, say, an hour or two (the app may buzz-remind something like 15/5 min before the time is up and also to start preserving (and/or posting it to some website) the retro-recording of the last hour as the others suggested). Otherwise, one may just not have the chance to tap the app if things get rough and fast.