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   Shriram Krishnamurthi (shriramk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 10:28:38 JST Shriram Krishnamurthi

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   1/ For some years now, @kashhill has been a leading journalist on privacy and technology. Here she mainly tells the human story behind the facial recognition company Clearview (whom she brought to national attention). But there's much more to the book. ↵
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     Shriram Krishnamurthi (shriramk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 10:28:37 JST Shriram Krishnamurthi

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     3/ She describes US state and national attempts to legislate on this matter, with rare successes but mostly failure, depicting the corporate, governmental, and non-profit methods of working and blocking. But the tech is so democratized, legislation seems to be the main hope. ↵

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     4/ She points out that faces and other biometrics are essentially immutable and indelible, thus deserving greater protection. And she presents the many, many ways in which their traceability can be problematic. ↵

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     Shriram Krishnamurthi (shriramk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 10:28:38 JST Shriram Krishnamurthi

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     2/ She does a good job of telling the long and unsuccessful history of facial recognition (I didn't realize Woody Bledsoe, who I always associated with theorem provers, was a pioneer), and how the availability of data and ML changed that. ↵