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Everyone should opt-out of Clearview AI here: https://www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-requests

Much easier for EU and California residents

> This tool will not remove URLs from Clearview which are currently active and public. If there is a public image or web page that you want excluded, then take it down yourself (or ask the webmaster or publisher to take it down). After it is down, submit the link here.

That's not an opt-out. That's only a request that they remove the index to an image that has already been removed from the web. You can't ask them to remove all photos of you, nor will they remove a photo that is still up on the web.

In other words, it's the sort of bullshit that we can expect from an evil company like ClearView.

What incredible arrogance, it makes my blood boil. You're supposed to either know what all their sources are and do all of your own work one at a time, or just give them links to the things you most want hidden, an extreme vulnerability.

Not only that, but ClearView also incorporated driver's license photos into their database -- and there's literally no way that you can have those removed.

So even the meagre facility they offer here is completely meaningless.

You need privacy laws like GDPR and California's in your state.

Yes my cousin's pet ferret's website desperately needs the burden of a GDPR-compliant Cookie Consent Notice. It has made European online web presence so burdensome.

Your cousin's pet ferret's website likely has absolutely no business setting anything related to cookies in the first place.

So.. yeah.

Cookies are used for things as simple as nighttime color theme preference. Someone more knowledgeable than either of us will probably point out that GDPR doesn't care about cookies like that...

Actually I'm betting on the more knowledgeable to point out that browsers signal light/dark theme preferences automatically, without cookies.

https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#prefers-color-schem...

https://caniuse.com/?search=prefers-color-scheme

Yes, that exists, obviously. However, it's perfectly valid for someone to prefer a particular site to override an OS or browser setting.

Yes, GDPR doesn't care about cookies like that, it starts to apply for personally identifiable cookies (e.g. ad tracking which tries to make unique id's) but not for generic "preference=nighttime" ones.

How about the ferret website doesn't track people.

It doesn't track people in the sense of exploiting their web presence, but it does use cookies to give visitors their own preferences to see all kinds of targeted ferret nonsense. The visitors love that. They don't have to dig through the website to find the content they always want to enjoy.

While GDPR has good points, I think the cookie pop up is not one of them. I've probably clicked the ok button on a few hundred now without really reading any or it making a difference to my life apart from annoyance. I wonder if those have helped anyone anywhere?

Yes, very much so.

The California opt out asks:

"Are you a California resident or are you authorized to submit this request by a California resident and submitting this request on behalf of that California resident?"

There's no language stating the photo needs to be of a resident of California. So could I just call up my friend in LA and say "hey is it cool if I request Clearview to delete me from their database on your behalf?"

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