[Scan-DC] How does the group feel about a delay in streaming ? Re: Has anybody tried the Citizen app?

[Rick Hansen]

Hi Greg, how old do you think public safety would feel about a 10 to 15 minutes away on streaming? The public would be able to hear action in near real time and the information would be too stale to aid someone evading the law.

Does anyone have an idea for something in the Belsaw to Laurel area that could be streamed and this would be a good trial? 

Thanks and may we all listen well and often, 

Rick


> On Mar 19, 2019, at 3:12 AM, Greg Danes <danesgswolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought the ECPA of 1934 disallowed making money based upon what you
> intercept in communications over a open radio circuit. I could be wrong
> about that but I do know what hit me years ago was the fact it was a
> federal crime to use radio in the commission of a felony or *personal gain*.
> All that being said with the internet live streaming real time events on
> broadcastify it seems harder if not impossible to enforce some of these
> things short of encrypting communications. Social media it seems is
> becoming more of the problem than a solution. I must be getting old and
> cynical or just old :)
> 
> KJ4DGE
> 
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:35 PM Peter Rothschild <lists at peter-rothschild.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Great.  Based on that article, in the short run it sounds like a way to
>> make
>> a few bucks by listening to scanners.  In the long run (or not so long), it
>> gives public safety organizations even MORE reason to encrypt.  Farther
>> out,
>> this kind of thing may be all we have once everything is encrypted.
>> 
>> --Peter--
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
>> Behalf Of Brian Rokus
>> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 7:51 PM
>> To: Scan DC <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Has anybody tried the Citizen app?
>> 
>> 
>> For anyone further interested, the New York Times just ran an in-depth
>> article about it - including how people were at one point paid to stream
>> video from incidents.
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/style/citizen-neighborhood-crime-app.html
>> 
>>