How many more times do these bodies need to pass "orders" that don't result in any action before they come up with a new approach?
The US does not have GDPR. Period. Flat out. Full stop. Once you understand that, things will make a lot more sense.
And no, extraterritoriality means absolute zero here. That french citizen traveling in America? Heads up, US Customs does not have to respect to GDPR. Neither does the walmart he shops at. Neither does Amazon if he orders something online.
Claiming they do is weird, that's not how it works.
Before we are snarking about clearview having to come up with new arguments, let's evaluate how well their current arguments are working?
Pretty darn well.
And my guess is the US government, rather than shutting them down, will PAY them to do their stuff, ESPECIALLY on overseas nationals. This is exactly the type of big government "anti terrorism" surveillance style databases govts love.
Customs is part of a sovereign nation. What customs can and can't do has precious little bearing on what companies can and can't do. It's basically irrelevant.
> Neither does the walmart he shops at. Neither does Amazon if he orders something online.
Sure, if both are OK with not being able to operate in the EU _and_ believe the US government will take the political heat for refusing to enforce the EUs laws.
We also don't strictly _have_ to extradite criminals to other countries. But we usually do.
International law functions nothing like domestic law, because there is no higher power to say "no, you can't do that". If the EU can get the US to punish US companies through diplomacy, force or trades, then that's how things work. If they can't, then it's not how things work.
My guess is that the US won't shield them. It's not critical for US defense, largely redundant with data available from Facebook, and we're already fighting to keep our existing tech giants abroad. Clearview is more useful as a sacrificial pawn than trying to get it crowned a queen.
> Lennie had done more than 300 evictions since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s federal moratorium expired in early August
It's super convenient for our corporate overlords that they can count on such psychopaths to execute orders nazi-style without even a glipse of empathy. The question is how can we as a society find any such situation acceptable? The empty dwellings outnumber homeless people at least two to one (probably more) and yet a State religion/delirium called private property forces people to be homeless.
Think you're squashing bugs hard to make a living when you review your git log? This person squashes about 15 "bugs" (that's us) a day for the profit of housing speculators/mafia. Such efficiency taken in the wrong direction: only police abolition can lead to better justice on this planet.
I would like to see abolishment of speculative property ownership. You either use it, or it gets given to someone else.
You can't hold it and wait for the price to go up. You get a year, maybe two, and then it becomes public domain to anyone that will use it.
I find it absurd that people are born and indoctrinated to believe that because someone else says they own this bit of land that they've never used, no one else can use it.
People are literally born homeless. Their parents may have a home, and they may let their children use it, but they are born without anywhere they can legally be without someone else's permission.