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 Oh and also Turbotax and other tax preparers were selling client data to Google and Facebook becuase how better to market eyeballs than to know their actual wealth?