Archinect - News2024-11-15T01:51:45-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/106097322/controversial-new-app-will-keep-you-away-from-sketchy-areas
Controversial new app will keep you away from "sketchy" areas Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2014-08-08T14:38:00-04:00>2019-01-05T12:31:03-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3b/3b3de66e42849c50f14863a6c9e624a0?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>SketchFactor ... is a Manhattan-based navigation app that crowdsources user experiences along with publicly available data to rate the relative "sketchiness" of certain areas in major cities. [...]
The founders are also bracing for potential complications from an app that asks anonymous users to judge a neighborhood's sketchiness. After all, fear can be subjective. And the site could be vulnerable to criticisms regarding the degree to which race is used to profile a neighborhood.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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