PSA: if you're in California/EU (or pretend to be) you can request ClearView (the hip facial recognition AI service that law enforcement uses) to exclude you from their databases (https://clearview.ai/privacy/requests).
Just don't pretend so well that the California Franchise Tax Board is convinced too.
It is interesting to me though that EU citizens have far greater rights on the Internet than American citizens do. For example it's almost impossible for American tech companies to deplatform a EU citizen unless they break local law. There's a vast array of laws and regulations from libel to privacy to others I don't even know the specifics on, all of which will be interpreted by courts that are evidently hostile to American companies. For example, calling an American a Nazi is never going to pass muster in a libel suit. Calling a German a Nazi is calling them a criminal, which is clearly libelous.
I wonder if this will be another arms race like adblocking now. The facial recognition companies find a work around to this and researchers find another work around, ad infinitum.
Meanwhile I have the best solution to thwart all facial recognition, don't upload you photos in the first place.
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It is interesting to me though that EU citizens have far greater rights on the Internet than American citizens do. For example it's almost impossible for American tech companies to deplatform a EU citizen unless they break local law. There's a vast array of laws and regulations from libel to privacy to others I don't even know the specifics on, all of which will be interpreted by courts that are evidently hostile to American companies. For example, calling an American a Nazi is never going to pass muster in a libel suit. Calling a German a Nazi is calling them a criminal, which is clearly libelous.
Meanwhile I have the best solution to thwart all facial recognition, don't upload you photos in the first place.
It certainly is possible, but the bar is high and grows higher the more people in one's life.