Reply to post: Re: Legality

Image-rec startup for cops, Feds can probably identify you from 3 billion pics it's scraped from Facebook, YouTube etc

Pascal Monett Silver badge

Re: Legality

Clearview is quite incorrect indeed. There's this thing called decency, where it is not because you can do something that you should consider yourself justified in doing it.

You can follow someone in the street. If you do that for too long though, that person is going to get cross at you. Arguing that you have the right to be in the street does not change the fact that you do not follow people. Here, it is the same thing. You can look at a picture. That does not give you the right to copy the picture and monetize it.

Unfortunately, the law is not going to react on this point.

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