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Kashmir Hill

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Privacy pragmatist. @nytimes journalist and author of the new book YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. Named after the Led Zeppelin song.

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1/ Today FTC brought and settled charges against Rite Aid for using a biased face scanning system that led to employees falsely accusing people of crimes they did not commit. We impose a 5-year ban on Rite Aid using face surveillance. My statement: ftc.gov/legal-library/…

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Breaking on MLex : ClearviewAI wins ruling from Vermont judge denying state AG motion for summary judgment, saying a jury must decide whether the company violated VT law by the Internet of Vermonters' faces. clearviewai Kashmir Hill

Breaking on @mlexclusive : ClearviewAI wins ruling from Vermont judge denying state AG motion for summary judgment, saying a jury must decide whether the #facialrecognition company violated VT law by #scraping the Internet of Vermonters' faces. @clearviewai @kashhill
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I would think this was an April Fool's Day hoax that the company forgot to delete but Joseph Cox talked to an anonymous 'marketing professional' who described being pitched the product

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New: Three months after Julia Love and I published our investigation into reverse warrants served to Google by police, the company says it is ending its ability to respond to geofence warrants. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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I met Norman Lear only once, but it left such a mark on me that I have to share the story.

And it involves his clandestine support for whistleblower Chelsea Manning. nytimes.com/2023/12/06/art…

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Eric Schmidt Fei-Fei Li Senator Todd Young Mustafa Suleyman ✍️ From AlexandraReeveGivens: Kashmir Hill's 'Your Face Belongs To Us' Kashmir Hill

'A reminder that policymakers have to focus on the many ways AI is impacting people’s rights & safety - not just the shiny object of generative AI.'

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As a journalist who has been following Bitcoin for a long time (and even lived on it back in 2013), I really enjoyed this book.

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My latest. The tldr; Do not let your kids use your Google account on their tablets.

nytimes.com/2023/11/27/tec…

My latest. The tldr; Do not let your kids use your Google account on their tablets. nytimes.com/2023/11/27/tec…
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Interesting article on Clearview in Ukraine, where authorities say they are using it to keep track of the identities of all the Russian soldiers involved in the conflict & to find kidnapped children via social media posts: time.com/6334176/ukrain…

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Monday re-post of my Diplomatic Courier of 'Your Face Belongs to Us' (@penguinrandom) by Kashmir Hill. An alarming account of how facial recognition's proliferation is challenging our concepts of privacy, & the duality of technology's promise & peril. diplomaticourier.com/posts/facing-e…

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Big week for Justin.tv founders with Kyle Vogt out at Cruise and Emmett Shear in at Open AI.

In some alternate timeline, the weekend drama would have been live-streamed by the various players rather than cryptically tweeted.

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The legal ping pong continues in UK v Clearview. UK’s privacy regulator announced today that it is asking for permission to appeal the decision that it doesn’t have jurisdiction over Clearview and can’t fine the company.

The legal ping pong continues in UK v Clearview. UK’s privacy regulator announced today that it is asking for permission to appeal the decision that it doesn’t have jurisdiction over Clearview and can’t fine the company.
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🎉The Financial Times put Your Face Belongs To Us on its best of 2023 book list:

'In its focus on the ambiguous duality of tech, this is a parable for our times.'

ft.com/content/c78ebb…

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