JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens (PIX11) — If there's an emergency anywhere in the five boroughs, people need to be informed about it right away, of course. In trying to meet that need, the city has announced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A popular public safety app has made its way to Central New York. Citizen, a real-time safety app, is ...

Big Tech's broad surveillance push violates privacy at best, and perpetuates racist over-policing at worst. It's exactly the wrong choice for tenuous, tumultuous times. False arrest, racial profiling: ...

Apps that alert us to what's happening in and around our neighborhoods are nothing new, but there's *** new app coming to our region, and it's raising some safety concerns over how the information is ...

The app Citizen, which is used to alert users about emergencies unfolding in their area, has been recruiting people to livestream crime scenes in Los Angeles and New York. The program was first ...