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Public Data app wishlist


  1. plate@car.gov Make all car license plates have an email address. People could warn you before the tow truck, if you parked your car in a bad place. If you’re license is ABH-2342 then your email alias would be ABH-2342@car.gov.  And everyone would just know that.
  2. Public problem app.  I wish there was an app to report problems and crimes to relevant government agencies.  It would include some automatic reporting, e.g. your phone automatically reports a pothole when you hit one while driving.  The driver won’t need to pull over and manually report.  The smartphone would just know that a sudden jolt along a road means pothole and report it.  
  3. Kidnap app. Make a facial recognition app to that was connected to a database of known missing persons so if people saw something suspicious they could take a pic and check if the person was known missing.  
  4. My recent experience with the Overnight Service of USPS further drives the need for an app for tracking the interaction with a company or government agency.  We need something that makes it easy to capture all the emails, chat windows, phone calls sitting on hold, broken email links, broken or just bad web forms, tweets.   We need an app that makes it easy to also publish to a public site for accountability including the time it takes for a company/agency to resolve the issue.
    1. It will need:
      1. Datamasking features blackout email addresses,  HIPAA data, financial data specifics, phone numbers, ssns etc.  
      2. The public site will be have stats on different companies.  Awards for fastest resolver of issues. Rankings.

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