Join us on Wednesday, October 25th at the Berkman Klein Center for a deep dive with Kashmir Hill, tech reporter for the New York Times, on her new book Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy As We Know It. In conversation with Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Hill will discuss her book-length investigation into the ultimate surveillance tool. From mainstream entertainment venue surveillance to alluring cell phone apps, Hill traces how tech companies slowly primed citizens to passively accept facial recognition tech that can easily be used–and abused–for social control. SpeakersKashmir Hill is a tech reporter at The New York Times, where her writing about the intersection of privacy and technology pioneered the genre. Hill has worked and written for a number of publications, including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Gizmodo, Popular Science, Forbes, and many others.

Source: New York Times September 20, 2023 17:48 UTC