SeeClickFix: The new Spy app paid for with your tax dollars
We just received an email from a reader in Maine about SeeClickFix, a private service being sold to city governments to make it easier for citizens to report problems in their area...for the Common Good in your Communitarian State. Designed to allow users to report neighborhood problems by using their mobile phone or computer, SeeClickFix is free for you to use, but your government pays a fee of between $1,200 to $20,000 a year. Right now you'll use it for non-emergency reports to the Building Code Enforcement Unit, the Police Department, or the Public Works Department, but who knows what you'll be reporting after you've been conditioned to spy. For those of you who like to collect brownie points for being a good german, there's a loyalty program---you get points every time you report something! And what are these redeemable for? We don't know! Appointment to boards and commissions? Certificates from your mayor? Deputizing you? Well, not you---your anonymous accuser. Smile! You're being spied on by your neighbor! Some of the cities who are using SeeClickFix for reporting are Oakland, CA, Richmond, VA, Bangor, ME, and...your town?
SeeClickFix: The new Spy app paid for with your tax dollars
Ben Berkowitz
10/9/2011 12:12:10 am
As the founder of this company and a Jew I greatly resent your analogy to Nazi Germany.
Alexander Hoffnung
10/10/2011 11:39:22 am
I am just as hesitant as the next person to have someone, especially a body as large as most governmental bodies, spy on me. BUT, this article is wildly misguided at best. The author seems to suffer from the far too common misconception that information passed through the internet is fundamentally different than information passed through a telephone line.
Rosa Koire
10/12/2011 08:19:36 am
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