'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
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Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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My parents’ dementia felt like the end of joy. But when they got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.
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What I learned about algorithmic bias from creating the first AI-generated faces on Wikimedia Commons
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The creators of TikTok caused my website to shut down
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I spent a week alone in the Metaverse
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How I hacked CASIO F-91W digital watch to support NFC payments
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I’m a Luddite. You should be one too
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How Freddie Wong built RocketJump to nine million subscribers…and then left Youtube
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Last year I secretly ghost-wrote and published my best friend's autobiography as a joke. This year I recorded the audiobook version using a deepfake of his voice, and released it for charity.
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Lord of the pings: How I turned off my phone notifications, and got my life back
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I've locked myself out of my digital life
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Apple broke up with me
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My life without a smartphone is getting harder and harder
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The day I almost decided to hold the press to account
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I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything
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My strange, slow, twenty-year quest for broadband
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I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
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What I learned in two years of moving government forms online
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I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing
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How I’ve convinced people around me to care about privacy
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After ten years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
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A personal account of a fake Amazon reviewer
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I joined Parler, the right-wing echo chamber’s new favorite alt-Twitter
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How I built a $100 drive-in movie theater to hang out with friends while social distancing
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Webcam hacking—The story of how I gained unauthorized Camera access on iOS and macOS
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I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me.
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I’ve fought for a free internet for thirty years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right
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I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
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Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
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Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
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I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords: Tips for working with a co-bot
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I was a 10x engineer. And I’m sorry.
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In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet
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I regret my role at Facebook, but I’m keeping the money
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How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers
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I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun
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Hated and hunted - The perilous life of the computer virus cracker making powerful enemies online
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I stood up to Apple and fixed my own Mac
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‘Is my absence from social media a red flag?’
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What I learned from the hacker who spied on me
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I tried to block Amazon from my life. It was impossible
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Google tried to patent my work after a job interview
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How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
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I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece. What I found was alarming.
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I know the salaries of thousands of tech employees
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I miss my iPod Classic more than anything
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The machine fired me
30 votes