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Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

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Sloane Crosley
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 3
Essayist
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New York City
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