Episode #207: Kashmir Hill

In Episode #207, technology author and journalist Kashmir Hill joins Osi to explore the rise of Clearview AI, a facial recognition app capable of identifying individuals from a single photo by harvesting billions of online images. They discuss the rapid adoption of this technology by law enforcement and private entities, highlighting the significant privacy and surveillance risks it poses if left unregulated.Kashmir Hill is a journalist at The New York Times and the author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. She writes about the looming tech dystopia and explores how society can work to avoid it.Kashmir began her journalism career in 2008 as a writer for the legal blog Above the Law. The following year, while pursuing a master’s in magazine journalism at NYU, she created her own blog, The Not-So Private Parts. Initially intended as a yearlong project, she has continued to chronicle the fate of privacy in the modern age for over a decade.In 2019, Kashmir joined The New York Times after serving as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and a writer for Forbes Magazine. She has also written for Popular Science on topics such as bitcoin and for The New Yorker about poker, a game she enjoys playing.