Sometimes having a curated application store is a benefit; other times it’s a risk:

Police Tape is an Android app from the American Civil Liberties Union that is designed to allow citizens to covertly record the police. When activated, it hides itself from casual inspection, and it has a mode that causes it to send its recording to an ACLU-operated server, protecting against police seizure and deletion.

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The ACLU says that an iPhone version is “coming soon,” though it remains to be seen whether something so potentially controversial passes muster with the App Store.

via Police Tape: an ACLU mobile app to secretly record the police – Boing Boing.