[jermaustin1]

Policing the data should be the way forward. Just like I cannot take your PII and publish it without your consent, it should go also with your dataset of faces. The only trouble I see is what constitutes a face for facial recognition vs a face that is in the background of my Instagram photo?

Take this photo I took of the Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo [1], there are a few faces in that photograph that are quiet prominent. I'm protected in the US because it is in a public place, but in the future would I need to manually blur out the faces of those who do not sign a model release?

1: https://megapickles.photo/2018/06/03/dumbo-washington-street...

[OkGoDoIt]

Can you really not take PII and publish it without consent? Let’s say you found it somewhere publicly or in some other fashion where a user has not agreed to a privacy policy. I’m not saying you should do that or that it’s morally right, but are there actually legal protections against that outside of Europe?

[jjeaff]

Not that I know of. As long as what you publish isn't defamatory, there is no law against publishing pii.