Your Face Belongs to Us Quotes

“touting a “98.6 percent accuracy rate” and an enormous collection of photos unlike anything the police had used before.”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy

“Facebook automatically tagging your friends in photos; Apple and Google letting people look at their phones to unlock them; digital billboards from Microsoft and Intel with cameras that detected age and gender to show passersby appropriate ads.”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy

“there is still no overarching law guaranteeing Americans control over what photos are taken of them, what is written about them, or what is done with their personal data.”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy

“Data brokers who siphoned location information from smartphone apps were selling a history of people’s movements to federal officials. Police didn’t need a warrant; they just needed to pay for the intel.”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy

“Startups are notorious for making grandiose claims that turn out to be snake oil.”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy

“Privacy, a word that is notoriously hard to define, was most famously described in a Harvard Law Review article in 1890 as “the right to be let alone.”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy

“mobile app that could, in real-time, identify anonymous individuals on the street or in a bar could cause serious privacy and physical safety concerns,”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy

“Privacy isn’t just about what people know about you, he said, it’s about how that knowledge gives them control over you.”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy