8 Nov 2011
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You're on a date ... with someone whose behavior is getting out of hand. Aggressive. Inappropriate. You want out. What you wouldn't give to send a smoke signal to your very best friends, to have them call riiiiiight this minute, rescue you, give you an out. A new mobile app will let you do it — and more. There's safety in numbers with Circle of 6.

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14 Jul 2011
White House "Apps Against Abuse"

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The White House and, well, all of Washington, are kinda busy right now (to say the least) trying to reach some sort of immediate solution to our debt problem so that the country doesn't have to, you know, default and plunge into a global crisis of catastrophic proportions. So there's that. But while the President and lawmakers stave off tensions and economic pandemonium, the government carved out some time to issue the Apps Against Abuse challenge: create a mobile app that'll keep users safe from sexual assault.

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