A new app called Peeple allows users to rate real people on a scale of 1-5, and you can’t delete the results.

Peeple, an upcoming app for the iPhone, can best be described as, “Yelp for people.” Instead of rating businesses, you can rate real human beings, and can even create profiles for others — with pictures and private information — that the ratee in question can’t delete.

The Washington Post broke the disturbing news earlier this week, explaining that this app can be used to rate anyone from your co-worker, your ex, your neighbor, or your sibling.

It’s all fun and games until you realize that people can also rate you. Imagine going job hunting with a low personal rating hanging over your head, or even just someone commenting on your poor attention span when watching Netflix!

And there’s no option to ignore this app, either. In order to create a profile for someone, you have to know them personally — and provide Peeple with their phone number, which the app will then use to send the unsuspecting new profile holder updates when they receive reviews!

What makes it even worse? You can’t delete reviews of yourself, whether they’re bad, good, or just biased. “That would defeat the whole purpose,” the Washington Post writes, prefacing an interview with one of the app’s founders, Julia Cordray. (Although users can “report anything they deem inaccurate,” according to Peeple’s founders.)

Explaining how she came up with the app (and why on earth she thinks it’s a good idea), Cordray says, “People do so much research when they buy a car or make those kinds of decisions. Why not do the same kind of research on other aspects of your life?”

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To name just one of the many reasons “why not,” how about because there’d be no verification, no protection against personal vendettas or biases, and no way to fix or hide your score?

While the public interest claim could potentially be made here (though it doesn’t extend to people not in the public eye), the lack of care for individual privacy protection is pretty astounding.

Even if, like Cordray promises, the app will only display positive (however they determine that) reviews for people not personally registered with the site, we bet that most normal humans would rather not have their personal interactions rated and reviewed on the Internet.

As TWP points out, “Where once you may have viewed a date or a teacher conference as a private encounter, Peeple transforms it into a radically public performance: Everything you do can be judged, publicized, recorded.”

Cordray’s rebuttal? “That’s feedback for you!”

xoxo, Gossip Girl.