Dark Patterns that Mislead Consumers Are All Over the Internet
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Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Alfred Ng is an enterprise reporter in Brooklyn covering privacy and surveillance. He’s interested in stories that highlight technology’s side effects and how they can be addressed. He left The Markup in June 2022.
Before The Markup, he was a senior reporter for CNET, covering cybersecurity and privacy, and a reporter for the New York Daily News, covering police and crime. His reporting demonstrated how technology’s claims to reduce crime were unfounded, both in neighborhoods and in schools using facial recognition.
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