This is great concept with a strong execution. Interested to see how the price-point resonates relative to typical frequency of use.

This is particularly worrisome because it highlights an entirely new scope to the challenges associated with journalism. Having a deep fake create tons of normal content to then use specific pieces to target a person/agenda will be extremely difficult to deter.

Just gifted it for my mom. Hoping it kick-starts some better habits for her.

Awesome, excited to hear what she thinks about it.

Just checked out Newsy and created a site. Great concept and product! Excited to see if I get any traction from it.

Thanks for the feedback! I agree that there are layers of distinction between normal onboarding vs unique. We would strive to play at the 1st and 2nd layer. I'll keep this guidance in mind.

Thanks for the feedback. The alumni partnership piece is a great idea as they may be willing to front the cost.

Great feedback - thanks for the questions.

-Re: your first question, we are aiming to build a team of broadly-skilled experts with depth. Ultimately we will ensure the coaching experts are well-qualified.

-There will definitely be money-back guarantees. Also, we are considering free trial periods

Yes/No. Here, probably. Elsewhere, no. In China, their facial recognition has got so good that they can track people even with face masks on: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/how-china-built-...

Also if you add gait recognition, you can add as many masks and hoodies as you want, but you will not escape recognition.

Would wearing some kind of full length cloak or burqa-sequence garment that obscures a lot of movement be a plausible counter? Obviously they can’t obscure everything about your gait, but I imagine they’d take away enough useful information to make it significantly harder.

Probably, but at that point you'd stand out to humans! Imagine being at an airport...

Standing out to humans is plausibly less of am issue than being monitored and recorded and your data stored in perpetuity.

Humans will forget about you, data recorded about you will be stored an reused and abused for who knows how long.

Good point. I was thinking that in a case of an oppressive gov you wouldn't be able to wear these things anyway.

For now, but if everyone was wearing one it could work.

OP here: While I appreciate the feedback and understand parts of it, I think writing general pieces that can help broader audiences still can be valuable. The piece wasn't designed to cover simply today's reality but tomorrow as well.