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Love the idea of a stop and frisk app: http://www.nyclu.org/app http://www.nyclu.org/app A more general "I'm being forced to do something against my will" app w
by ph0rque 13y ago
Love the idea of a stop and frisk app: http://www.nyclu.org/app http://www.nyclu.org/app A more general "I'm being forced to do something against my will" app would be real handy, I think, especially on the 2nd or 3rd generation of google glass.
- avalaunch 13y agoI love the idea of the app too. I found this odd though: Shaking the phone stops the filming. That seems like a bad idea given that police brutality might cause the film to stop when you most need it to be filming. The one really positive thing I could see coming out of google glass is a shift of power from the police force to the citizens.
- ctdonath 13y agoWhy stop filming at all? I'd want something that kept on recording until the battery was dead, regardless of any action that an app can resist by any means publishable.
- logfromblammo 13y agoI go to "CopBlock" and "Photography is Not a Crime" for these sorts of stories. The general advice there is to start recording immediately, keep your mouth shut, and use a save-to-the-cloud video app like Bambuser so the fuzz can't erase your footage.
- spiritplumber 13y agoHowever, DO offer to hand over the SD card. And keep a dummy SD card between the battery and the back cover for this purpose. It is also useful for generic SD card duty anyway, and costs like $5.
- logfromblammo 13y agoNo, you don't offer anything. You keep your mouth shut until they tell you to hand it over. If they seize and search your property without warrant or reasonable suspicion that you used it to commit a crime, and commit spoliation of evidence by deleting video or images from it, they can be held accountable later. If you give it up voluntarily without them even asking, you are not helping anybody.