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From KQED.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. When people used to imagine a surveillance state,

they're usually tended to be a state involved, you know, the government. But as internet-connected cameras and neighborhood networking applications have rolled out, the people building the Panopticon have turned out not to be agents of the government,

but everyday people trying to catch Amazon package thieves.

We'll discuss citizen, ring next door, and the techno-privatization of public safety.

And then, we'll celebrate the legacy of Michael Morgan,

the trailblazing conductor of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, who died last week at 63 with his collaborators like Camel Bell.

That's next on Forum after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

The Citizen app, like Next Door and Amazon's Ring Service, has been blamed for inciting people to act like vigilantes.

But Citizen, in particular, keeps pushing the boundaries of the role a private company should play in policing

neighborhoods. They recently launched a private service called Protect that the company is billing as a

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