How facial-recognition technology is upending privacy as we know it

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<p>Big tech companies first started working on artificial facial recognition more than a decade ago. But they chose not to release it, worried about who might use it and how. Then, in 2017, the small startup Clearview AI debuted its facial-recognition app and began marketing its tool to law-enforcement agencies. This week on <em>Apple News In Conversation,</em> host Shumita Basu talks to Kashmir Hill, a<em> New York Times</em> tech reporter and author of the new book <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/your-face-belongs-to-us/id6445181767" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Your Face Belongs to Us</em></a>, about what this technology is capable of, what guardrails exist, and what the future of privacy might look like.</p>