HUM launches on Tuesday, and next week I'll be doing events at many bookstores that I love Greenlight Bookstore Strand Book Store Book Passage Tattered Cover Book Store #BunchofGrapesBookstore with many writers I admire Lincoln Michel Kashmir Hill Anna Wiener #SusanZimmermann #JamesWJennings

After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized. Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff 404media.co/where-facebook…

Tough debate in Europe about whether police should be able to use face identification tools with databases of photos scraped from the public internet: biometricupdate.com/202408/police-… In U.S., the legal answer is mostly just 'Yes.' (Some police departments have chosen not to and some

So I guess we'll be finding out how many iPhone users still choose Google when the company's not allowed to pay Apple $18 billion per year to be the default search engine.

Yay! It’s out today! If you want a personalized version, I’ll be signing them at The Strand tomorrow: strandbooks.com/your-face-belo… I’ll be there talking with Helen Phillips about her excellent new novel, HUM.

Yesterday, YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US by Kashmir Hill published in paperback. Tonight, we will be talking about HUM Strand Book Store: eventbrite.com/e/helen-philli…

We are very happy to announce the shortlist for this year's Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, celebrating the best in popular science writing from around the globe, from #AI and privacy issues to the challenges of space settlement: #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2024/08/s…

Delighted to see Kashmir Hill's #YourFaceBelongsToUs here. Congratulations to all those shortlisted!

I'm so honored that YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US is among this incredible collection: the The Royal Society's finalists for best science book of 2024. The winner will be announced in October: royalsociety.org/news/2024/08/s…

The Texas attorney general sued General Motors today for collecting info about how people drove its cars and providing it to the insurance industry — a practice unknown until I reported about it in March. nytimes.com/2024/08/13/bus…

The TX attorney general also recently reached a billion dollar settlement with Meta over facial recognition technology. He put out a press release in June that his office plans to start enforcing the state’s (mostly ignored until now?) privacy laws. texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/…

SCOOP: The Dept of Homeland Security plans to collect photos of migrant children "down to the infant" to improve how facial recognition handles children's faces over time... & quietly changed policies restricting the collection of biometrics from minors. technologyreview.com/2024/08/14/109…

the twitter takeover loans were such a bad deal for investment banks that some bankers are getting their annual comp cut by nearly half because they cant offload them from their books without gigantic losses

"worst deal since the financial crisis" i am not an M&A banker but that sounds bad wsj.com/tech/elon-musk…

Looking forward to reading this! Really appreciate the signed copy, thanks to Kashmir Hill and Strand Book Store

This is especially interesting to me as I wrote a book about facial recognition technology. Texas has started enforcing a long-standing biometric privacy law, but Google argues it’s unfairly targeting them instead of Clearview. biometricupdate.com/202408/google-…

Clearview AI has been fined $33.7 million in the Netherlands for its "illegal database" of faces: apnews.com/article/clearv… (This is also a country where my book came out last year.)

Musical click fraud nytimes.com/2024/09/05/nyr…

Teslas are always watching and so police are enlisting them to help solve crimes. Also do be careful about what you do around a random Tesla parked on the street. They are always watching. Great article: sfchronicle.com/crime/article/…

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