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Safe Mode Podcast

Journalist Kashmir Hill on facial recognition and the underage hackers hitting Vegas

Sep 28, 2023
41:02
When journalist Kashmir Hill first revealed the facial recognition technology built by Clearview AI it served as a wake up call for what a group of renegade technologists with few ethical foibles could do to society. By amassing a huge trove of facial images and training an algorithm on that data, Clearview built a product with an unprecedented ability to to identify individuals — exploding our notion of privacy in the process. Hill’s new book, Your Face Belongs to Us, tells the story of Clearview and how facial recognition technology is poised to change society, and she joins the podcast to discuss it with reporter Tonya Riley.

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