Comment on An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. Britain is powerless to act
alienanimals@lemmy.world 8 months agoThe EU has enough power to actually stand up to US companies. See: barrons.com/…/eu-bans-meta-s-use-of-personal-data…
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yes in the EU. Fuck all out if it. This company was not operating in Europe. The internet isn’t in Europe
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 7 months ago
EU laws apply to EU citizens, even on the internet. EU laws therefore tend to have surprisingly global effects, often called the ‘Brussels Effect’.
A US company harvesting data from EU citizens is subject to EU laws and can be fined for breaking them accordingly, for example.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The Brussels effect is a book.
Are you saying the lawyer who specialises in data and privacy is wrong?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 7 months ago
Please read beyond the first Google result that you find: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
What a UK court has ruled based on EU law is not necessarily what an EU court would rule. They may well state that Clearview is a commercial partner of foreign law enforcement and therefore not protected (because it’s not the foreign law enforcement itself doing the data harvesting, but a commercial firm intending to make money).
ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Why are you white knighting for big US companies? They don’t even know who you are outside of a personal identification number.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m not… Just replying to EU supremacists who think their laws rule the world, they don’t.
And who haven’t read the fucking article which clearly says other EU countries have tried taking them to court, so the fucking moron who said it wouldn’t have happened if the UK hadn’t left the EU is clearly talking shite, as are all the other fucking morons
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
No, but the internet in Europe is regulated by the EU. If that company wants to use it, they will be subjected to its laws or they will be blocked and fined.