California/GDPR laws are great but they don't stop the data collection, merely allow the user to access it.
We need to make companies like Clearview completely and unquestionably illegal. I am infuriated and don't know what we can do.
Somewhere between the inter-networked machines and peoples' minds some kind of magical thinking takes over.
Why don't normal people understand that they are being actively fought by organized relentless enemies?
In the old days cities had walls around them, I think we're barely getting to that point on the internet now, despite repeated and continuous raids by all kinds of marauders.
Stop blaming the users for what is systemic and legal faults - and in many cases really an issue not even of laws or of enforcement. Think revenge porn - nothing you can do to stop it, and only so much you can do to contain it once it's out there.
There are things you can control and things you can't, eh?
I do blame the users. They buy a book of matches and proceed to burn their own house down. Either they're children or just incredibly stupid. That everybody else is doing it too changes nothing IMO.