Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly radio show from WFMU about technology, how it's affecting us, and what we can do about it.

Oct 30, 2023: Facial recognition w/Kashmir Hill, author, "Your Face Belongs to Us"

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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It, by Kashmir Hill, published by Random House

• Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter at the New York Times.

Clearview AI, the company featured in Hill’s book

Your Face May Soon Be Your Ticket. Not Everyone Is Smiling (NYT, Oct 13, 2023): “Facial recognition software is speeding up check-in at airports, cruise ships and theme parks, but experts worry about risks to security and privacy.”

Reflectacles, eyewear that is “designed to fool facial recognition systems that use infrared for illumination and systems using 3D infrared mapping/scanning.”
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