Kashmir Hill is an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group, focusing on privacy and technology. She specializes in first-person reporting and has previously lived on Bitcoin, worked as an invisible girlfriend, and purchased a sterling online reputation for a fake business. Hill was previously a senior editor for Fusion, where she edited its technology vertical Real Future. She has worked as a senior online editor for Forbes Magazine and editor for Above the Law, among other publications. Her 2016 story for Splinter, “How an Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Kansas Farm into a Digital Hell,” received an honorable mention from the National Press Club.
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As humans, we have an inherent and intense desire for connection. Social media and our always-on devices have simultaneously fulfilled and thwarted this desire, so what comes...
