Can A Snitch App Put A Dent In Corruption?

In Lebanon, a country of four million people where “everyone knows everyone,” corruption is said to be part of everyday life, but a new app could prove to be an antidote, according to a report on NPR. Someone who is asked to pay a bribe – in the course of getting a driver’s license or construction permit, for example – can later report it on their smartphone, anonymously, including where it happened and how much they had to fork over. The report goes to a lawyer who works with the non-governmental organization that created the project, the name of which translates from the Arabic as “Shut Down the Store.”