Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It Hill Kashmir
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It Hill Kashmir The story of a small tech company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and…
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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It Hill Kashmir
The story of a small tech company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know itNew York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify anyone based on just one snapshot of their face. If it was everything it claimed to be, it would be the ultimate surveillance tool, and it would open the door to everything from stalking to totalitarian state control. The app could supposedly scan a face and, in just seconds, surface every detail of a person's online life: their name, social media profiles, friends and family members, home address, and photos that they might not have even known existed.
Could it be true?In this riveting account, Hill tracks the improbable rise of