Kashmir Hill on One Company’s Attempt to End Privacy As We Know It
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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Andrew talks to Kashmir Hill, author of Your Face Belongs to Us, about a secretive startup’s quest to end privacy as we know it.
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Kashmir Hill is a journalist at The New York Times and the author of Your Face Belongs to Us. She writes about the looming tech dystopia and how we can try to avoid it. She got my start in journalism in 2008, as a writer for the legal blog Above the Law. The next year, while getting her master’s in magazine journalism at NYU, she created my own blog called The Not-So Private Parts. It was supposed be a yearlong project, but she’s still chronicling the fate of privacy in the modern age more than a decade later. She joined The NY Times in 2019, after having worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer at Forbes Magazine.She has also written for Popular Science about bitcoin and for The New Yorker about poker, a game she loves to play.
