Comment on An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. Britain is powerless to act
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 11 months agoEU 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 11 months ago
The Brussels effect is a book.
Are you saying the lawyer who specialises in data and privacy is wrong?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 11 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).
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes, not in breach. The UK laws have not been changed since brexit. Start dealing in facts, not some Brussels effect which isn’t real other than REACH. The California effect is much larger.
The EU court can decide whatever the fuck it likes, it still has zero jurisdiction outside the EU.
Also, read the FUCKING article, the French also brought a case…
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’m not talking about who is in breach or not, I argued about the jurisdiction of the court, which they ruled that the law does apply to Clearview (even if it wasn’t breached). It’s literally in the article, maybe you should read it?
Also, foreign companies saving any data on EU citizens who reside in the EU are subject to the GDPR, see this webpage set up by lawyers who actually know about this stuff:
And the French also brought a case, precisely because the law does apply and they have jurisdiction. So thanks for proving my point I guess?