It’s quite hard to tell whether the Vigilante app is a functioning business or a teaser for a new episode of dystopian sci-fi series Black Mirror. Would crime as we know it still exist?” asks the company in a Medium post announcing the app’s launch. The app, created by a company called Sp0n (its sparse website says it makes “disruptive consumer mobile apps”) was swiftly kicked off the App Store by Apple, which had “concerns” about its content, according to a note on Vigilante.Live. In this way, the app encourages the public incrimination of innocent-until-proven-guilty people at the scene. Vigilante will introduce an Android version of the app in the upcoming weeks with plans to expand in additional cities later this year.”

Source: The Guardian November 01, 2016 23:05 UTC