Your Face Belongs to Us
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Your Face Belongs to Us

A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

Kashmir Hill • Random House • 2023

Nowhere To Hide

by David Meyer

New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill explains why governments and individuals are fighting against facial recognition technology to protect personal privacy. The Clearview company is a case in point.

New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill has crafted a substantial explanation of how a wrong or wrongheaded decision by a facial recognition technology company could decimate personal privacy. He uses the saga of the Clearview company to ground his case about the dangers of this invasive technology.

Faces

In the early 1990s, software programmer Hoan Ton-That made his first big impression by creating quiz applications that more than six million Facebook users liked well enough to install.

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