I don’t think punters realise how dangerous this job is, it’s not always easy cash and a bed of roses...The law forces us to work alone and if a punter does come and attack you the response from the police is not always great. Even then it will probably be thrown into the magistrates court along with petty crimes.
I’ve reported some violent encounters on there, which probably saved another WG from going through the same thing. Of course the punter will say it’s ‘malicious’ though and it never happened. Who’s going to admit to raping and smacking up prostitutes?
I get that it’s easy to download and report someone, but it does say at the top to use your own judgment and experience. Which I do. Just because a punter wasted one WGs time doesn’t mean he’ll waste mine. But in my experience, I’ve not yielded much success when giving them a chance.
Paloma, anyone paying attention to this site will be clearly aware of dangers for SPs because in our varied discussions we've talked about various troubles from people other than pimp/management. We also call out described/admitted behaviour that would appear to be a threat to SP safety.
In trying to understand how "reliable" Client Eye might be it struck me that it seems to be unnecessary. National Ugly Mugs runs their own alert system that allows anonymous reporting, sends sms/email alerts and can be searched. So apart from the "it's an app" aspect that can be downloaded by anyone Client Eye is replicating NUM which is an established an supposedly credible organisation for SPs. Given NUM supports Client Eye, is it in fact commissioned by NUM?
The registration process for NUM alerts can be completely anonymous, like CE, with some kind of "manual" verification but it's incredibly obscure as to how they confirm you're who you are with no validation data held by them.
NUM were supposedly working in 2016 with the Police to ensure that genuine reports of assault etc were shared with the Police for proper investigation, so did this fail if you're saying that SPs still aren't being treated fairly wrt to these serious crimes?
Criticising a very dodgily founded app that compromises punter security and privacy based on "hearsay" rather than enforceable fact as well as an unexplained means of avoiding exploitation that threatens your security because it can be manipulated, is valid and cause for concern for all those wishing to safeguard SPs. It does not really help SPs as much as gives them more cause to worry because you may get alerted about a number but by the app's own advice, you just have to think about whether you want to proceed based on any number of anonymous reports, "verified source" or not, which may or may not be true or apply to the actual person using that number at the time.
1) Anyone can register, so any malevolent punter or SP could register, no number required.
2) You can choose to share your contacts list but that would place client "names" and numbers in the hands of the app developers so those clients whose data was shared by SPs without consent would have cause for claim of misuse of data. SPs holding contact details could be subject to GDPR.
3) If they are only recording the "trouble-maker's" phone number and whatever complaint there is against them then arguably they may get away with not complying with GDPR/DPA wrt to the trouble-maker's rights provided that number is not traceable back to them. If a car number plate is recorded then that certainly places them slap bang in GDPR territory, if the car is registered/insured against a real person. If the app is publishing/broadcasting slanderous information whether by false accusation or if the number is for an innocent who doesn't punt but then becomes associated with using prostitutes then there's all kinds of personal privacy issues that may ensue. So the very reckless manner in which they are passing information is a hazard.
4) Sure there are nutters who won't bother to change their numbers and try to keep calling, or worse of course they could keep coming round, but then if the SP doesn't move the nutter doesn't need to call for new address info. Of course the wily nutters will change numbers and find the SP again. So what are SPs really being protected from? Nuisance idiots rather than serious threats?
Likewise for criminals preying on SPs.
5) If the Police are failing to properly investigate an assault, robbery or worse rape then that's not for some ramshackle app to play vigilante like a digital Charles Bronson, that's for the affected SP to seek responsible assistance to get the police to act.
There are a bunch more concerns...
We don't want any (honest) SP to come to harm but treading on the rights of your clients is not the way to go about it.
