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1. Very Important Book exposing Peter Theil (the man who owns Jd Vance)
   Peter Theil funded Clearview, along with Palantir, both facial recognition technology that could be used for a near future digital ID system. Kashmir Hill is brave and before her time in bringing awareness to this concern. Clearview is now used by DHS and TSA in the airport as well, making an even more urgent issue.I am so thankful for this book making me aware of how this sinister technology has creeped into our airports.

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2. Well that’s terrifying
   This could have been an Atlantic article, but still an engaging book. There’s not a lot of hope here, but knowledge is power, right?

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3. A Must-Read for People Concerned with Their Privacy
   I heard about this book the day it came out in an interview with the author on NPR Radio and bought it immediately. Although I intentionally have never used social media, my computer identity software which I pay for annually, has found my name, email and phone number listed on the dark web. If that isn’t enough to give me fright that my identity may someday be stolen, this book certainly unnerves me if I were using social media, as it should to all that do. Kashmir Hill’s impeccable research and writing style, made this a page-turner for me. Although AI is technically protected by the First Amendment (writing software code is considered a form of speech), Clearview AI’s software and its refusal to admit how its use, especially by police forces, is unethical and a danger to society.

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4. A great book about law as well as technology and privacy
   Your Face Belongs to Us is about the future of facial-recognition technology, an incredibly powerful tool with great promise and peril. The book is a story about privacy and technology, but it’s also a story about the law and legal issues. The future of facial recognition will be shaped profoundly by legal responses. Can we craft laws that allow society to take advantage of the benefits of this technology while at the same time preserving the privacy that it threatens?Lawyers play a crucial role in the story of Clearview AI, the mysterious startup at the heart of the book. They include Paul Clement, Floyd Abrams, Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, and attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). If you’re a lawyer, law student, or person interested in the law—or if you’re looking for a gift for one—this engrossing and insightful book is a must-read.

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5. Hold Onto Your Seat!!!
   Your Face Belongs To Us begins with a gripping mystery and an insider tour of shoe leather reportage as Hill tenaciously strips away at the secrecy shrouding the intriguing players at Clearview AI and the power they’ve unleashed on the world. Along the way she does a deep dive into the fascinating history of facial recognition technology and its place in our society. It’s a theme park ride fun, suspenseful and scary. I urge everyone who cares in the least about privacy to read this unbiased but harrowing account of the dystopian present and the future it presages.

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6. There’s no privacy 😔
   Great book about the implications, regulations, legal aspects, and some technical details of facial recognition apps, I didn’t know how advanced this technology was and what is coming in the next years 😱

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7. A “must read”book
   Excellent book. Well researched and well written. Kind of scary too.

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8. Fun to read
   The book reviews the history of facial recognition technology and concentrates on one company, Clearview AI. The style is journalistic (many stories). The author, a New York Times journalist, emphasizes the risk to privacy (and ignores the fact that journalists like her heart privacy very often).

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