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Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup That’s Dismantling Your Privacy
Author: Kashmir Hill
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Price: Rs 799
In November 2019, the author, who is a technology reporter at The New York Times, received a leaked corporate memo from a contact. This was written by Paul Clement, who had served as Solicitor-General of the US in the George W Bush administration.
Mr Clement was representing Clearview AI, a company she had not heard of. He claimed Clearview had developed face-recognition algorithms which could identify anybody whose picture was publicly available with 99 per cent accuracy, given one snapshot.
