Kyle Harrison
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Your Face Belongs to Us
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
- Author
- Kashmir Hill
- Published
- 2023
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Hill’s reporting on Clearview AI — a small company that scraped billions of faces off the internet and sold identification to police, and the reason facial recognition arrived without anyone voting on it.
Where I saw it: A reply to @WillManidis’s question on X, June 2, 2025 — “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/willmanidis/status/1929527399718269081
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Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Privacy · Surveillance · Artificial Intelligence — where this sits in the corpus.