> I'm no fan of surveillance technology in general, nor of Clearview specifically, but no American corporation is legally obligated to obey British law. All th

> I'm no fan of surveillance technology in general, nor of Clearview specifically, but no American corporation is legally obligated to obey British law. All the more when what Clearview has done is build an index of publicly available images, and associated URLs, derived from the freely-crawlable open web. Legal rulings in the US -- e.g., in Sorrell v. IMS Health -- consistently show that information aggregation and dissemination are treated as speech, so creating and distributing the Clearview index is protected expression under the First Amendment. Also, Clearview is far from the only game in town. Lots of tech companies -- including some very large ones -- have facial recognition indexes. I suspect that Clearview is being made an example of, pour encourager les autres. But it seems a little bit exceptional, as though the law isn't being fairly or evenly applied.