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A Phone App Helps Day Laborers Attack Wage Theft (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader writes with this story from the New York Times, excerpting "After three years of planning, an immigrant rights group in Jackson Heights is set to start a smartphone app for day laborers, a new digital tool with many uses: Workers will be able to rate employers (think Yelp or Uber), log their hours and wages, take pictures of job sites and help identify, down to the color and make of a car, employers with a history of withholding wages. They will also be able to send instant alerts to other workers. The advocacy group will safeguard the information and work with lawyers to negotiate payment."
Adds the submitter: "Although I completely support the app, personally, I see this encountering some significant legal challenges. Hope they've lawyered up." Though the use case is different, this is similar in spirit to "cop watch" apps, like Cell411 and the ACLU's Mobile Justice. (And of course there's Periscope.)
Especially illegals who can afford smartphones with data plans?
You must not be a Republican than. President Obama gave illegals government-issued iPhone with data plans for years now. I want to sign up for the program but none one will give me a link. It's not fair that I have to pay $80 per month for my iPhone when the government is giving these out for free like candy.