Citizen is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The singer's address to thousands of people was published on Thursday evening after an allegation of a home invasion.
Users of the app were notified of a break-in in the Highland Park neighborhood. The Citizen's message was updated at 9:41 PM to say that the house was owned by Eilish. The alert was seen by 78,000 people and sent to 178,000. The exact address was replaced with a cross-street in the description of the incident.
Although celebrity home addresses are often public, a new app pushes the home address of one of pop music's biggest stars to thousands of users. It is the latest destructive move from Citizen.
Apple pulled the title from the App Store because it encouraged users to push themselves into dangerous situations. Apple re-opened its gates after it changed its name to Citizen. Users were advised to avoid incidents in progress while the app provided tools to assist them. At least one episode shows a company that ignores social responsibility and focuses on profits.
Andrew Frame ordered the launch of a live stream in May of 2021. He offered a reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect. The team was encouraged to get this guy before midnight by the CEO in one of his internal conversations.
The team ignored a staffer who warned them about breaking the app's terms of service, which prohibit "posting of specific information that could identify parties involved in an incident." The team celebrated when the police announced that they had made an arrest. There's only one problem. The citizen had the wrong person. Frame placed a public bounty on a wrongly accused person in order to legitimize his app.
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