14 Real-Life Tech Horror Stories Scarier Than Black Mirror

Black Mirror season 3 warns viewers of a spoOooOoky technologically advanced future; its first episode depicting a society where everyone rates every person they interact with, no matter how minor, and your rating determines everything. The concept is similar to that of the failed Peeple app, which was supposed to be Yelp but for people. Black Mirror heavy-handedly preaches the horrors of tech, but truth be told, we already live in a scary-ass technologically advanced society. Facebook and Snapchat have your biometric data. (Who owns your face?) AI is racist. The robot from Ex Machina is a reality, but she’s just not as hot. Truth, as it turns out, is scarier than fiction.

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Source: Gizmodo – 14 Real-Life Tech Horror Stories Scarier Than Black Mirror