Inside the secretive startup selling facial-recognition software
In “Your Face Belongs to Us” Kashmir Hill profiles Clearview AI
Most people expect to walk down a street anonymously. Passersby do not know fellow pedestrians’ names, jobs or what they just posted online. But owing to the growth of facial-recognition technology, norms around privacy are being eroded, Kashmir Hill, a journalist for the New York Times, argues in a new book. Software enables people’s photos to be instantly matched to online images and digital profiles. This type of technology is now popular among law-enforcement agencies.
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This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Big brother’s gaze”
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