Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy

A must read guide for everyone. It’s important to understand both the limits and capabilities of social media platforms, as well as the way those social media platforms mis/handle your privacy.

A very insightful record into the capability of technology and its intrusion into our personal lives.

An in-depth history of facial recognition technology culminating in a fascinating investigation of ClearviewAI - a terrifyingly powerful, and equally secretive, company that seems to be dismantling our privacy already.Very concerning how the whole company was started by a handful of MAGA supporters who believed in eugenics, who scraped billions of our images off the Internet without our consent and seem to be happy to sell it to anyone wanting to buy the tech, and also grant access to a handful of their favourite celebrities.

This book is so good I couldn’t put it down. It’s so informative.