How NSA And CIA Connections Helped Launch This Slack-y App For Better Agency Collaboration

BlueLine Grid is designed to help cops, firefighters, and EMTs work together. The VC firm behind it connects the Valley with the District.

A mobile collaboration tool for police officers, fire departments, and EMTs called BlueLine Grid.

BlueLine Grid (which Fast Company’s Peter Wade covered back in 2013) is designed as a collaborative platform for government employees in different agencies to work together. Jack Weiss, the company’s president and cofounder, describes it as a team communication tool that allows information to be shared easily. Individual agencies, such as police departments, pay a monthly subscription fee to use the platform, and users then access the platform through smartphone apps or a web-based dashboard. One of the product’s selling points is a social graph of America’s public sector workforce developed by BlueLine. With the click of a button, the company hopes, police officers or EMTs can immediately connect with the contact they are trying to seek across jurisdictions.

Users can then identify their geographic locations on maps, collaborate with teams in real time (almost like a Slack for cops), and communicate with other agents in the geographic vicinity. Supervisors can also send push notifications and broadcasts to entire teams over the app, which is offered to police departments as a feature that saves time and money.

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Teen phone monitoring app leaked thousands of user passwords

Exclusive: A server stored teenagers' Apple ID email addresses and plaintext passwords.

At least one server used by an app for parents to monitor their teenagers' phone activity has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children.

The mobile app, TeenSafe, bills itself as a "secure" monitoring app for iOS and Android, which lets parents view their child's text messages and location, monitor who they're calling and when, access their web browsing history, and find out which apps they have installed.

>https://www.zdnet.com/article/teen-phone-monitoring-app-leaks-thousands-of-users-data/