![]() The secretive company that may end privacy as we know it If you’re a Decoder listener, you’re going to love it, and I highly recommend it. Over the past few years, she’s been relentlessly reporting on Clearview’s growth, the privacy implications of facial recognition technology, and all of the cautionary tales that inevitably popped up, from wrongful arrests to billionaires using the technology for personal vendettas. Kashmir was the journalist who broke the first story about Clearview’s existence, starting with a bombshell investigation report that blew the doors open on the company’s clandestine operations. As Kashmir reports, you simply plug a photo of someone into Clearview’s app, and it will find every photo of that person that’s ever been posted on the internet. Today, I’m talking to Kashmir Hill, a New York Times reporter whose new book, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It, chronicles the story of Clearview AI, a company that’s built some of the most sophisticated facial recognition and search technology that’s ever existed. Our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan. ![]() The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt. The First Amendment, AI, copyright law - there's a lot to unpack ĭecoder is a production of The Verge and is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. But you’ll also hear us disagree a fair amount about what to do about it. You’ll hear us agree that the internet at this moment in time is absolutely flooded with disinformation, misinformation, and other really toxic stuff that’s harmful to us as individuals and, frankly, to our future as a functioning democracy. He's been teaching law for more than 30 years, and is a defining expert on free speech and the internet - and something of a hero of mine, whose works I've been reading since college. Today, I’m talking to internet policy legend Lawrence Lessig.
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