Kash Hill writes about privacy and technology. She is currently a reporter at The New York Times.
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Last Notes npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill For the last few months, I've been reporting on how data from our cars is being used in ways we might not expect. npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill And the class-actions begin. npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill @npub1lrv…tth9 How do you mean? npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill My story about how telematics data from people's cars unexpectedly raised their insurance rates is on the front page today... npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill We're standing on the brink of a world in which facial recognition runs amok and anonymity is impossible. npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill Your Face Belongs To Us comes out Tuesday! npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill @npub1zaw…tdg8 Thanks so much and apologize in advance if you're seeing me talking about it on all the social medias. npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill A few years ago, I got a tip that seemed too outrageous to be true: A mysterious company called Clearview AI claimed it had scraped billions of photos from the public web to identify just about anyone based only on a snapshot of their face. npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill My book, Your Face Belongs To Us, comes out in three weeks! I'll be wandering the country talking about it. Here are a few of my stops, with more to come. All preorders are highly appreciated, happy to sign if you make it to one of these events! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/ npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill I have another story on a false arrest as a result of police use of facial recognition technology. This time, it was a woman who was 8 months pregnant. She was charged with robbery and carjacking for a crime committed two weeks earlier by a not visibly pregnant woman. You can read the story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html?unlocked_article_code=qsFuuNKvnjIr6VoVXR3zV4AS1_jB8oyxiT3TEwCA6NuuAlx66Co8nU8kJ07djnLtjckQ7ZtehNThM7bCtGPjbrhlj8jUjFzp8QAA9UZ7I6N7gSoaXQzdB0alh_n_I-umkZ50fXwvrTLZzuDiMTwJYuW_w6X3OXr03k0POapGP7hfwT28eVMooxl-5nIhKpXwoJeaE6CR1BEQfUxMGIJz6I4tE-T_FuxBPXyZ8_krseECL7CFezED7hPZnrnaE2aImL8fAhYLdgicSdjZmCnAWXe6V8Ng-ujP9iZrah3XBjohulZGTNjwP1tPx25poO517VCgsm2V0ZO3LYZcbRv4-dByPva8YI2Zn3KM6g&smid=url-share npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill This is an interesting formulation on a shift that's happened in terms of how companies/people are thinking about online data: “Previously, the thought was that you got value from data by making it open to everyone and running ads. Now, the thought is that you lock your data up, because you can extract much more value when you use it as an input to your A.I.” npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill This week, I got pitched by a PR guy who expressed admiration for a book I wrote. Except I didn't write the book and when I Googled the title, no one else had either. I emailed the guy back: "What did you think of the book? 😉" That led him to admit that "someone used ChatGPT" and it gave a bio for me with this invented piece of information. The guy was embarrassed but I found it fascinating. ChatGPT hasn't learned how to tell the truth but it has learned plausibility. Beware, early adopters! npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill Lawmakers worried about the internet's effects on young brains have proposed age requirements for porn and other "harmful" online content. This isn't the first national panic about the internet & kids. In 1996, Congress made it illegal to knowingly send or display "indecent" material to people under 18. In a ploy to challenge the law, the ACLU posted a Supreme Court ruling about George Carlin's 7 Dirtiest Words in the English language to its website. It f***ing worked. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/business/aclu-free-speech-online.html npub12vrztjd4c80wppc3usaw2thrh2uu379h3xhuvx94l3689aukpqlsawfjkt Kashmir Hill This is a "holy shit" story with an emphasis on the holy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/
