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A review by pineconek
Your Face Belongs To Us by Kashmir Hill
challenging
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.25
Possibly the scariest book that I've ever read.
I love good investigative journalism, and especially the type where the journalist becomes blacklisted in the database of the company that she's investigating. The "secretive startup" alluded to in the subtitle is Clearview AI, a system that generates "face-prints" of all individuals in the training database. And this information is then available for easy linkage to social media, legal names, and unwanted video appearances (to put things mildly).
It definitely made me think a lot about the whole Youtube thing.
Highly recommend, especially if you'd like to be horrified by the face recognition tech and surveillance state we currently have. It's great on audio. 4.25 stars.
I love good investigative journalism, and especially the type where the journalist becomes blacklisted in the database of the company that she's investigating. The "secretive startup" alluded to in the subtitle is Clearview AI, a system that generates "face-prints" of all individuals in the training database. And this information is then available for easy linkage to social media, legal names, and unwanted video appearances (to put things mildly).
It definitely made me think a lot about the whole Youtube thing.
Highly recommend, especially if you'd like to be horrified by the face recognition tech and surveillance state we currently have. It's great on audio. 4.25 stars.