Citizen Crime App Hires Big Tech Lawyer as First Law Leader (2)

Citizen, a controversial mobile app focused on neighborhood safety and tracking crime, has named Matthew Heckman as its first-ever legal chief.

Heckman most recently served as a deputy general counsel for commercial and corporate at Quantcast Corp., a San Francisco-based audience insights and advertising company.

He spent nearly six years in-house at Twitter Inc., where Heckman rose to the level of director and associate general counsel for media, live video, and marketing, and a little over a year as a senior counsel for internet services at Apple Inc.’s iTunes.

Citizen, which last year expanded from tracking local crime to alerting ...