Simon Weckert
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Arte Tracks


Documentation, 2020


The German hacker Simon Weckert likes to cause miles of traffic jams by switching green traffic lights to red. And he hacked Google Maps with the help of a hand truck that was filled with 99 cell phones! With the work that was shown at Ars Electronica last September, the 32-year-old activist warns of data misuse and shows that one shouldn't blindly trust movement maps from artificial intelligence.

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