[njkleiner]

> These are not leaked medical records. In a way these abilities are like a person saying "hmm isn't that the guy from that thing a while back?"

That's why I don't think there is much of a point in trying to prevent people (e.g. by law) from crawling and using data in this fashion.

I feel like the only reasonable solution here would be to force these companies to rebuild their databases by legally limiting the lifetime of such data.

That way people have a chance to remove themselves from the database by changing/deleting their online profiles without having to use legal measures like GDPR requests. People wouldn't even have to be aware of any individual database they might be part of; they would be removed from it automatically at some point.

Another benefit of this would be that the pure cost of constantly re-crawling a giant dataset could act as a limiting factor and therefore prevent abuse.

[gowld]

Is you are going to play the "is it legal" game, then it's illegal bulk copyright violation. I gave Facebook a license to make copies of my data for use in its website. I didn't give Clearview a license to make copies to give out to it's customers.