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

> I'm no fan of surveillance technology in general, nor of Clearview specifically, but no American corporation is legally obligated to obey British law. They are if they trade in the UK (which ClearView does). The actual answer is for governments to just say clearly "You obey our laws when operating here or you don't operate here". Instead they faff around with fines that are largely priced into doing business that get negotiated down endlessly. The alternative is we allow them to operate with no way to constrain them when they break our laws at all and at that point - what use is government regulation on anything related to data protection.