Two new app.'s encourage Americans to spy on each other.

CrimePush, which is available on iTunes, is the latest in mobile technology to encourage spying on your fellow Americans. After being held at gunpoint on the streets of Washington DC, co-founder Shayan Pahlevani thought of a way to conveniently help report and prevent crimes for the 21st century.

The company utilizes Smartphone technology to put crime reporting, literally, in the hands of users. After downloading the free iPhone or Android application, users can report an ongoing crime with the push of a button. A package of information including the location of the crime, photo, video, audio, and text description of the crime are sent to authorities immediately. The application also allows for users to report crime anonymously so that they may continue with their busy lives knowing that with a push of a button, police will know and have everything to pursue the criminal. Ordinary users become the eyes and ears of authorities.

"The application would be especially useful for high school and college students, who often find themselves walking back from class late at night, or the victim of hazing, bullying, or drug use. What is key about CrimePush.com is that it empowers the average citizen, ordinary bystanders, to report crime instead of ignoring it."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2012/02/01/downloading-empowerment-application-gives-citizens-control-over-crime/

CrimePush link: http://crimepush.com/


Informing on your neighbors? There's an app for that, its called the Patriot app.

The Patriot App links your phone to American security and law enforcement agencies via the Internet and allows you to report anything you want at the touch of a button.

By simply pressing the relevant icon, users can sound the alarm for terrorism, ‘suspicious activity’, a health pandemic or an environmental safety issue.

The $0.99 app, named after the controversial Patriot Act brought in by the U.S. government after 9/11, is designed to ‘encourage active citizen participation in the War on Terror and in protecting their families and surrounding communities’, its makers Citizen Concepts claim.

But critics say it is like putting Big Brother in the palm of your hand and could easily be open to abuse by those with questionable agendas.

The app works by making a direct link between your phone and law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1338738/The-Big-Brother-app-New-iPhone-download-lets-tell-tales-neighbours.html

Link to the Patriot App: http://patriotapps.com/PatriotApp.html