I only partially agree with that assertion. Regulating and restricting the use of facial recognition technology is entails creating civil and criminal liabilit

I only partially agree with that assertion. Regulating and restricting the use of facial recognition technology is entails creating civil and criminal liabilities. Such liabilities would make it prohibitively expensive for private initiatives to develop facial recognition products and services. Such legislation doesn't have to target facial recognition tech directly. In many jurisdictions, existing privacy legislation already puts up barriers. And legal cases involving Clearview are testing these frameworks. For instance, last year, privacy protection authorities in Canada launched a probe into Clearview and how it holds up legally (february 2020). Clearview subsequently shuttered it's operations in Canda (august 2020). https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2020/nr-c_200706/ https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2020/n... https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2020/an_200221/ https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2020/a... In Europe, there's the GDPR. Last year, Clearview was hit by a complaint in France. And just last month, february 2021, Hamburg Data Protection Authority ruled that Clearview clearly breaches the GDPR. https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-ai-gdpr-complaint-jumbo-privacy-2020-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-ai-gdpr-complaint-... https://edri.org/our-work/reclaiming-your-face-from-clearview-ai/ https://edri.org/our-work/reclaiming-your-face-from-clearvie... https://noyb.eu/en/clearview-ai-deemed-illegal-eu https://noyb.eu/en/clearview-ai-deemed-illegal-eu For sure, legislation and enforcement don't root technology once it's out there. But that's not the point. If you live in a place where you don't have strong privacy rights, you, as an individual citizen, don't have any legal footing to begin with to stop anyone from appropriating your portrait and using that in ways you don't agree with.