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Privacy pragmatist. Journalist at . Named after the Led Zeppelin song. kashmir.hill@nytimes.com or kashhill@protonmail.com

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    Aug 13

    I'm officially on leave for the next few months working on the Face Race book. Looking to talk to everybody with interesting information about the past, present and future of facial recognition technology. DMs, as always, open.

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Google search of the day for the book: 'Do Facebook pokes still exist' They do! To date myself, I had a relationship at one point that started with a Facebook poke. 😂

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  3. 5 hours ago

    I really need to work faster on my book. New examples of face collection and recognition keep popping up, from airports in South Korea () to lunchrooms in the UK ().

    Huh, so South Korea's Incheon Intl Airport has been scanning and storing faces w/o people's consent to build an AI monitoring system. Up to 100 million foreign passengers scanned + private companies given access to use said data for machine learning and algorithm testing
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  4. Oct 19

    They are getting more aggressive over time.

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  5. Oct 19

    I seem to get emails from Venmo weekly pushing me to buy cryptocurrency. I find this bizarre, like my bank encouraging me to take a trip to Vegas.

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  6. Oct 13

    Love, as a journalist, when I ask a public institution if they have some bit of information and they say they do have it but that no one has ever asked for it before. It's like walking through fresh snow.

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  7. Oct 4

    While Clearview AI navigates lawsuits, international investigations, local bans on facial recognition... it just keeps on keeping on collecting faces. Now has over 10 billion of them, up from 3 billion when I first wrote about them in January 2020.

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  8. Sep 13

    Can’t stop thinking about the mass murder by drone of an aid worker and the nephews, nieces, children to whom he was bringing water. That it was celebrated and called “righteous.” A meticulous investigation of surveillance gone horrifically wrong.

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  9. Sep 9

    Surfacing from my Twitter book leave hiatus to say how happy I am to see get this recognition from . The best of editors.

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  10. Aug 22

    Apple announcing a CSAM hash hunter at the same time it announces a nude-photo-identifying algorithm for kids’ phones is awfully confusing for a lay audience.

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    Aug 18

    “I kept trying to figure out, how can they get away with using the technology like that against me?” investigated ShotSpotter's algorithm-based gunshot detection system. My latest with , 🙏 support:

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    Aug 19

    Chicago grandfather Michael Williams spent nearly a year in jail on a murder charge while prosecutors cited an algorithm-based technology as key evidence. Now he's out. Here's his story from my great colleague for , w support:

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  13. Aug 19

    My favorite journalism film is Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon which is not about journalism, but rather a telling of the same event over and over again from the perspective of different characters, until you finally come to understand what happened. That’s what reporting *feels* like.

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  14. Aug 12

    In case you hadn’t noticed the raging fires and floods, scientists trying to push the panic button too

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  15. Aug 9

    How to do journalism: How not to do journalism:

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  16. Aug 2

    TikTok influencing our way to a more vaccinated society. Such a revealing tale of our times:

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  17. Aug 2

    Mena Yousif was a Minnesota college sophomore on the dean’s list with scholarships. A year later, she was an international fugitive, having a baby while on the run from the law, w/Mexican police searching for her using a blacklisted face recognition system

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  18. Aug 1

    Their story for :

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  19. Aug 1

    EFF’s said he hadn’t heard of the U.S. asking another country to do a facial recognition search for it before. It offers a glimpse of world where facial recognition might mean you could be found anywhere you go.

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  20. Aug 1

    Cooperation between American and Mexican law enforcement is not unusual, but having this level of insight into that cooperation is. It’s thanks to investigative journalists in Mexico who were looking into the country’s first, recently installed real-time face recognition system.

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