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The naïve suffer and even die, due to politically correct disinformation.
https://deconstructingleftism.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/a-note-to-foreign-readers-on-street-safety-in-the-us/
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[[Category:PCKills]]
[[Category:Cost of PC]]
Derbishire "The Talk"
Haiti NGO helper as Rape victim
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/06/tech/web/ghetto-tracker-controversy/
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/23346428/ghetto-tracker-app-controversy
{{BQ}}Last autumn, the briefly-lived GhettoTracker.com came under fire both for its name, which many found offensive, and because in labelling an area a "ghetto", it took into account user feedback and not official data such as crime rates. (It later changed its name to Good Part of Town before disappearing altogether.)
Nextdoor asks neighbours to submit crimes and unsafe local conditions
In 2012, when Microsoft was granted a patent for technology which would incorporate crime data when providing walking directions in its Bing maps service, it was dubbed the "avoid ghetto" GPS patent.
Some apps have had success by focusing more on specific communities: Nextdoor is a private social network in which users in specific neighbourhoods can communicate about local issues, including reporting crime and working with police to solve issues.
The key, say experts, are the users.
"Technology is only as good as the people who form part of its developer and user community," Seeta Pena Gangadharan, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, told the BBC.
"A tool like SketchFactor might actually be incredibly powerful for a community in building safety by allowing people to share stories but it really does depend on the context. You could imagine a community that might have a xenophobic tendencies or exclusionary tendencies to use an app like that as an extension of already existing biases."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28712227
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Microsoft "Avoid Ghetto" App Draws Controversy
Is an app that steers drivers clear of notorious neighborhoods racist?
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/10/microsoft-avoid-ghetto-app/
Ghetto app to avoid
https://deconstructingleftism.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/a-note-to-foreign-readers-on-street-safety-in-the-us/
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[[Category:PCKills]]
[[Category:Cost of PC]]
Derbishire "The Talk"
Haiti NGO helper as Rape victim
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/06/tech/web/ghetto-tracker-controversy/
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/23346428/ghetto-tracker-app-controversy
{{BQ}}Last autumn, the briefly-lived GhettoTracker.com came under fire both for its name, which many found offensive, and because in labelling an area a "ghetto", it took into account user feedback and not official data such as crime rates. (It later changed its name to Good Part of Town before disappearing altogether.)
Nextdoor asks neighbours to submit crimes and unsafe local conditions
In 2012, when Microsoft was granted a patent for technology which would incorporate crime data when providing walking directions in its Bing maps service, it was dubbed the "avoid ghetto" GPS patent.
Some apps have had success by focusing more on specific communities: Nextdoor is a private social network in which users in specific neighbourhoods can communicate about local issues, including reporting crime and working with police to solve issues.
The key, say experts, are the users.
"Technology is only as good as the people who form part of its developer and user community," Seeta Pena Gangadharan, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, told the BBC.
"A tool like SketchFactor might actually be incredibly powerful for a community in building safety by allowing people to share stories but it really does depend on the context. You could imagine a community that might have a xenophobic tendencies or exclusionary tendencies to use an app like that as an extension of already existing biases."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28712227
{{BQ/}}
Microsoft "Avoid Ghetto" App Draws Controversy
Is an app that steers drivers clear of notorious neighborhoods racist?
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/10/microsoft-avoid-ghetto-app/
Ghetto app to avoid
