Nobody owns your face. Not even you. 👤🔓

You think your face is yours. Legally, that's mostly a feeling, not a fact. 🧾

The facts 📌

🕵️ Clearview AI scraped 30+ billion photos from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and news sites without asking anyone. Police in the US used it. Nobody signed a consent form. Regulators in France, Italy, the UK, Greece and the Netherlands fined them roughly €20-30M each. Clearview mostly ignored the fines, because it has no offices there. Fines without enforcement are just invoices. 💸

📸 Facebook paid $650M in 2021 to Illinois users for tagging their faces without permission. Not because of a federal law, but because one state, Illinois, has BIPA, a 2008 law saying your faceprint is yours. Live one state over? You got nothing. 🗺️

🇪🇺 In the EU, GDPR treats your faceprint as "special category" data, same tier as your medical records. The 2024 AI Act bans untargeted scraping of faces from the internet or CCTV. Good on paper. Ask Clearview how scared they are. 📄

🎤 Tennessee passed the ELVIS Act in 2024: your voice and likeness are protected against AI clones. Denmark proposed giving every citizen copyright over their own face and voice. Copyright. Like a song. That's where this is going. 🎼

So who owns it? ⚖️

Whoever captured it first and has the better lawyers. In most of the world, your face is like your shadow: everyone can see it, nobody has to pay for it, and a company can collect ten billion shadows and sell the database. 🌑