The GPS "avoid crime neighborhoods" app

Just as I wrote here a few days ago, this article came out last evening: Microsoft's 'avoid ghetto' app: 'Racist'? A new technology designed to help pedestrians avoid bad neighborhoods has plenty of smartphone users up in arms A new Microsoft technology that may help users avoid "unsafe neighborhoods" is generating controversy and eliciting claims of "racist undertones." Here, a brief guide to what's been dubbed the "avoid ghetto" app..." To the programmers---and white people it might appeal to--I'm sure they'd say no, absolutely not. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/microsofts-avoid-ghetto-app-racist-114300129.html