{"id":4793,"date":"2023-09-20T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-kashmir-hills-your-face-belongs-to-us-20-sept-2023"},"modified":"2023-09-20T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T22:24:38","slug":"pluralistic-kashmir-hills-your-face-belongs-to-us-20-sept-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-kashmir-hills-your-face-belongs-to-us-20-sept-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" (20 Sept 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Kashmir Hill’s “Your Face Belongs to Us”: A candid, whistleblower-informed history of Clearview AI. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Kashmir Hill’s “Your Face Belongs to Us” (permalink) Your Face Belongs To Us is Kashmir Hill’s new tell-all history of Clearview AI, the creepy facial recognition company whose origins are mired in far-right politics, off-the-books police misconduct, sales to authoritarian states and sleazy one-percenter one-upmanship: https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/691288\/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill\/ Hill is a fitting chronicler here. Clearview first rose to prominence – or, rather, notoriety – with the publication of her 2020 expose on the company, which had scraped more than a billion facial images from the web, and then started secretly marketing a search engine for faces to cops, spooks, private security firms, and, eventually, repressive governments: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/18\/technology\/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html Hill’s original blockbuster expose was followed by an in-depth magazine feature and then a string more articles, which revealed the company’s origins in white nationalist movements, and the mercurial jourey of its founder, Hoan Ton-That: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/03\/18\/magazine\/facial-recognition-clearview-ai.html The story of Clearview’s technology is an interesting one, a story about the machine learning gold-rush where modestly talented technologists who could lay hands on sufficient data could throw it together with off-the-shelf algorithms and do things that had previously been considered impossible. While Clearview has plenty of competitors today, as recently as a couple of years ago, it played like a magic trick. That’s where the…Pluralistic: Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" (20 Sept 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Kashmir Hill’s “Your Face Belongs to Us”: A candid, whistleblower-informed history of Clearview AI. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[863,739,4563,300,2790,4564,4566,811,4340,12,4565,295,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}