IPhone app to fight street harassment

[eridani]

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/fighting-street-harassment-one-snapshot-time

In 2005, Emily May launched Hollaback NYC , a blog dedicated to collecting first-hand experiences of women being catcalled, leered at and groped in New York City as a way to document and, hopefully, eliminate street harassment.

Hollaback expects to put more force into that push with an iPhone app, to be released any day now. It will capture coordinates of the incident, allow users to snap a photo of the alleged harasser, select from a list of types of harassment, then post the resulting record of the situation to a database. As each incident report is moderated — to prevent, for example, geolocated pictures of male private parts from flooding the system — it's posted to an interactive map. The user will then get a follow-up email asking for more information about what happened.

The app is an elaboration on the Hollaback blog, which mixes similar vignettes of harassment in New York with essays and other news about harassment and violence against women. Even if it isn't published yet, the ideas themselves — of the blog and it's approach to social change, and this type of iPhone app — are worth exploring.

"In very real terms, it's turning the lens off the woman who's being harassed and onto the harasser," May told me in a phone interview Thursday.

[smalll]

1. Ha! Reminds me of last night's clueless fanboy Apple post --

Know Your Rights When it Comes to Police Stops -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8739810

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 11:46:19 AM EST

In Brooklyn, the cops are using a program called "Stop, Question, Frisk." They made 52,000 arrests last year. The ACLU today says Brooklyn Women Knew Their Rights and You Should Too.

The NYCLU offers this updated palm card (or iPhone app) walking you through what to do if you’re stopped by the police.
The palm card not only apprises people of their rights, it helps them defend those rights. For instance, it informs people how to proceed if they are unjustly arrested.

A word to the wise: learn the laws in your state. In New York, police can't make you identify yourself if they don't reasonably suspect you of a crime, but that is not the case in some other places. So check out the ACLU’s national know-your-rights card...

An iPhone App -- what could be simpler? If you don't need it, e-mail it to your kids or someone who might.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2010/7/13/124619/298?utm_...

Yeah! What could be simpler to protect us from police stops -- or unwanted street catcalls -- than just to download some Apple app? :eyes:

We ALL know that the PRIME victims of police stops, or seriously threatening street catcalls -- are granny-dress-wearing, upper-middle-class, Williamsburg-dwelling art-school-layabout pasty trustafarians from Ohio who have the wherewithal to buy -- along with their organic, locally-sourced arugula and Stumptown coffee -- the latest over-priced Apple product --

that we can just DOWNLOAD AN APP ON!!!

:eyes: :shrug: :eyes:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I love it!!