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> So is your argument that a company must follow laws of any locality they scrape information on the internet from? i mean… yes? it’s entirely normal for a com
by toofy 1y ago
> So is your argument that a company must follow laws of any locality they scrape information on the internet from?
i mean… yes? it’s entirely normal for a company to be bound to the laws of jurisdiction it wants to open a store or restaurant in or whatever. why on earth would this be any different?
- chatmasta 1y agoWhat if they’re scraping from a US exit IP hitting a local Cloudflare cache node proxying to an origin in the UK? Their scraper only interacts with the US node, and in fact Cloudflare by design doesn’t tell the scraper where the origin node is. So are they subject to UK law in this case? No internet traffic left the US, aside from when the target site sent its data to a US server for publishing.
- toofy 1y agothat’s a lot of “what if” wild hypotheticals. clearview knows for absolute certain they’ve been operating in the eu.
- anonym29 1y ago>that’s a lot of “what if” wild hypotheticals. What? No it's not at all - that exact flow happens tens of millions of times per day every single day. Cloudflare handles a plurality of all global internet traffic and makes extensive use of a geographically distributed CDN.