"CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users' permissions."
Not sure about this -- one would have to study FB's terms of use in detail. In any case, implicit consent was given: if you don't want your picture to be used, don't ever upload it anywhere.
I haven't even uploaded it to LinkedIn, which might help to understand my surprise about a chat I had with the security officer of a resort in Cancun. He seemed quite pleased that he could positively identify me as software engineer working out of SV (all I had given was my California driver license). To this day, I don't know how I earned that conversation though (he was friendly enough, still ...), but I "won" the TSA lottery many times as well, so I somehow must trigger a red flag (perhaps not uploading one's picture is one).
Not sure about this -- one would have to study FB's terms of use in detail. In any case, implicit consent was given: if you don't want your picture to be used, don't ever upload it anywhere.
I haven't even uploaded it to LinkedIn, which might help to understand my surprise about a chat I had with the security officer of a resort in Cancun. He seemed quite pleased that he could positively identify me as software engineer working out of SV (all I had given was my California driver license). To this day, I don't know how I earned that conversation though (he was friendly enough, still ...), but I "won" the TSA lottery many times as well, so I somehow must trigger a red flag (perhaps not uploading one's picture is one).