People with commonly autocorrected names call for tech firms to fix problem
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#6N04E)
I am not a typo' campaign is calling for technology companies to make autocorrect less western- and white-focused'
People whose names get mangled by autocorrect have urged technology companies to fix the problem faster, with one person whose name gets switched to Satan" saying: I am tired of it."
People with Irish, Indian and Welsh names are among those calling for improvements to the systems that operate on phones and computers as part of the I am not a typo" campaign.
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