Your Face Belongs to Us
by Kashmir Hill
A startup claimed your face. Here's who's fighting back.
you pass cameras every day and assume you're just scenery
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A tech founder scraped 30 billion photos from the internet — your selfies, your LinkedIn headshot, your kid's school concert pictures — and sold the resulting facial recognition database to law enforcement. No opt-in. No notice. No legal theory under which this was clearly fine, and yet. Kashmir Hill, a New York Times tech reporter who has been watching Silicon Valley's privacy demolition job for years, tells the story of Clearview AI with the precision of a prosecutor and the pacing of a thriller. The audacity, honestly, is almost funny. Almost. By the end, you understand exactly why the title isn't a metaphor.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
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- Laughing at Empire
