Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

When the New York Times broke the Clearview AI story in 2020, we suddenly had to face the reality that no one could truly be anonymous in public any more. This powerful app could take a picture of any face and find dozens of public images on the internet that they were in - even just in the background. And if those pictures were associated with a social media profile, we could identify the owner of the face along with their friends and family - all in an instant. Today I speak with Kashmir Hill about her investigation of this company and the sobering impacts of facial recognition technology in a world full of cameras, chronicled in her new book "Your Face Belongs to Us". Interview Notes Your Face Belongs to Us: https://www.kashmirhill.com/book  Kashmir Hill facial recognition stories: https://www.kashmirhill.com/stories/face-recognition  Clearview AI, delete dead links: https://www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-requests  FRT used to track activity in coffee shop: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/endr