“Your Face Belongs to Them,” With Kashmir Hill

Kashmir Hill will discuss her 2023 book, “Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It.”

In Hill’s book, she tracks the rise of Clearview AI, the company that scraped 40 billion images from the web to build a powerful facial recognition app for use by the police. She details how the company’s advantage was an ethical breakthrough, not a technological one, because other entities can replicate what they've done, and some already have. Hill will discuss how we got to a world without anonymity and what we can do about it.

Hill is a tech reporter at The New York Times, where she writes about the intersection of privacy and technology. She covers topics such as facial-recognition technology, artificial-intelligence surveillance, genetic analysis and online reputation.

Before joining the Times in 2019, Hill worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer and editor at Fusion, Forbes Magazine and the legal news site Above the Law. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post.

She attended Duke University and earned a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.