I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook to share with police

Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.

Business Insider

@maxkennerly I began making sure pictures of me don't go on the net about 15 years ago.

People kept telling me I'm just paranoid, but to me this result was always painfully obvious.

Now we're at a very dangerous point and people still don't want to realize how much of a problem this really is… but hey, at least I get to say I told y'all so. πŸ˜‚ 😭