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Legalswipe (app)

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Original author(s)
  
Legalswipe Inc.

Operating system
  
Android, iOS

Development status
  
Active

Platform
  
Cross-platform

Legalswipe (app)

Initial release
  
June 2015; 1 year ago (2015-06)

Stable release
  
6.1 / 14 July 2015; 19 months ago (2015-07-14)

Legalswipe is a free app that offers general legal advice and protection to people randomly stopped and questioned by police. Christien Levien, a Canadian lawyer, conceived Legalswipe to educate civilians about their legal rights during their interaction with police. The idea of the app was born from Levien's encounter with police and his difficulty in navigating the legal system.

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Features

The free app, available for Apple and Android devices, informs its users about their rights and provides several key features through a series of simple contextual menus and cues:

  • A user-friendly navigation system (interface) provides contextual, situation-based cues to provide information related to a situation.
  • A personalized message of updates about geographic location is sent to emergency contacts.
  • Exact words to use and applicable rights are provided.
  • Audio and video recordings are sent to emergency contacts and uploaded to Dropbox.

    • Reception

    Legalswipe has been favorably received and the object of a lot of attention from Canada and the United States. Legalswipe was launched in June 2015 and has been downloaded over 15,000 times in its first two months. The app has been endorsed by former Queen’s Park speaker Alvin Curling and journalist Desmond Cole.

    References

    Legalswipe (app) Wikipedia
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