New App Turns Your Phone Into A Snitch Reporting Traffic Offenses To UK Police

A new smartphone application that will be launched in the UK this May hopes to make it easier for drivers to report traffic offenses to the police. The dashcamUK will be available free of charge, allowing users to submit video evidence of 21 different driving offenses, with a simple tap on the phone’s screen.

As reported by the The Sun, the application will record footage from the road as a regular dashcam, but it will be wiped off every 30 seconds in order to preserve the smartphone’s storage. If users notice something illegal happening on the road ahead, they can tap the home screen in order to automatically save the clip. Then, they will be able to upload it to a police portal, with the entire process taking less than one minute.

Besides recording video, the dashcamUK app will also be able to calculate another vehicle’s speed. However, all that spying and reporting won’t be limited to speeding, as the application will include a total of 21 driving offenses...