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> EU data protection authorities did not come up with a way to enforce its fines and bans against the US company, allowing Clearview AI to effectively dodge the
by deaux 1y ago
> EU data protection authorities did not come up with a way to enforce its fines and bans against the US company, allowing Clearview AI to effectively dodge the law.
This is laughable. You make it illegal for any EU company to do business with them, you imprison leadership as they arrive on EU soil, there's a hundred things you can do. Companies like these that simply ignore the law and seriously damage society need to be treated just like international drug trafficking rings. Never heard a "well they keep ignoring our fines and bans, oh my what do we do" when talking about those.
- gampleman 1y ago> imprison leadership as they arrive on EU soil I think that's the step that's being taken (or attempted at least) here.
- cynicalsecurity 1y ago> you imprison leadership as they arrive on EU soil It's in the article, Austria might issue a criminal warrant for the company executives.
- deaux 1y agoThe other measure is more important IMO. I doubt that zero EU companies, including EU subsidiaries of US companies, do business with these companies.
- wongarsu 1y agoI would assume their leadership simply never enter EU soil. Just like the CIA agents Italy has arrest warrants out for kidnapping Abu Omar, or how Kim Dotcom lived quite happily for a time by not going to the US or any country that would extradite him. It's pretty difficult to prosecute people on foreign soil without the kind of international cooperation that exists for prosecuting drug traffickers
- deaux 1y agoI did mention another measure. Does not a single EU company work with Clearview? Even EU subsidiaries of US companies? I doubt it.
- leobg 1y agoThis is government. If you exceed the speed limit on the autobahn, you’ll be fined immediately. But if you run a multi million Euro fraud, you will get away with it for DECADES. Why? Because they’ve got no systems in place for that. And to do something out of the ordinary that is hard would require someone with an incentive to do it. That does not fit the profile of your typical government employee. They don’t get paid for taking on difficult cases. They get paid for closing files, or, ideally, finding reasons for not even opening them in the first place. Laws are like locks. The honest people pay attention to them. The criminals don’t. They look at the enforcement (or lack thereof).