It’s a covert way to hold power accountable.
“This just...records things. That’s perfectly Constitutional to record police, and if they are doing their jobs as they should be there’s no problem for them,” creator Robert Petersen wrote in aon Tuesday. “I’ll add that I’ve talked to some officers and none of them have had any issue with it at all.”
To fire it up, all you have to do is say “Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over,” and your iPhone will initiate 18 different actions. The shortcut will immediately begin to record with your front-facing camera, dim your phone to zero percent brightness, pause any music or sounds playing in the background, turn off Do Not Disturb, and send your pinpointed location—plus the recording—to one of your emergency contacts.
in doing so—the video is immediately backed up to your iCloud or DropBox account, so deleting the video from your iPhone won’t destroy the record. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
Apparently iphones have a police shortcut link and it does a bunch of things when you tell Siri you're pulled over...?
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