An app company stirred up some drama when it released a new app formerly titled "Ghetto Tracker," which is meant to identify unsafe areas to help people avoid them. However, after massive outrage over the app's name, the company switched the title within 24 hours, to "Good Part of Town."
The app apparently rates the level of safety within various areas, and according to The Week, the app was originally launched with a homepage showing a smiling white family of four, as the app offered to show its users, "which parts of town are safe and which ones are ghetto, or unsafe." Along with the name change, it also shows a diverse family on the homepage to dial down the cries of racism.
How do you feel about this new "Ghetto Tracker" app?
Source: bossip.com
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