Show Notes
Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter for The New York Times. Her new book is Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It. “I often do feel like what my work is doing is preparing people for the way the world is going to change. With something like facial recognition technology, that's really important because if the world is changing such that every photo of you taken that's uploaded is going to be findable, it's going to change the decisions that you make.” Show notes:
kashmirhill.com
Hill on Longform
Hill's New York Times archive
Hill's Gizmodo archive
Hill's Forbes archive
01:00 "Life Without the Tech Giants" (Gizmodo • Jan 2019)
01:00 "Living On Bitcoin for a Week: The Journey Begins" (Forbes • May 2013)
01:00 "Your Face Is Not Your Own" (New York Times • Mar 2021)
01:00 Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It (Random House • 2023)
03:00 "Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened" (Wired • Nov 2009)
11:00 Hill's Above the Law archive
16:00 Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep (Ted Conover • University of Chicago Press • 2016)
19:00 "The House That Spied on Me" (Gizmodo • Feb 2018)
23:00 "I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move" (New York Times • Feb 2022)
25:00 "Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive’" (Kevin Roose • New York Times • Feb 2023)
26:00 "What Our Reporter Learned Delivering Burritos to New Yorkers" (Andy Newman • New York Times • July 2019)
27:00 "A Vast Web of Vengeance" (New York Times • Jun 2023)
27:00 "The Slander Industry" (Aaron Krolik and Kashmir Hill • New York Times • Apr 2021)
55:00 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa • 1950)
59:00 "Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match" (New York Times • Aug 2023)
68:00 "Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA" (Ryan Mac, Caroline Haskins, Logan McDonald • Buzzfeed • Feb 2020)
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