What if they’re scraping from a US exit IP hitting a local Cloudflare cache node proxying to an origin in the UK? Their scraper only interacts with the US node, and in fact Cloudflare by design doesn’t tell the scraper where the origin node is. So are they subject to UK law in this case? No internet traffic left the US, aside from when the target site sent its data to a US server for publishing.
that’s a lot of “what if” wild hypotheticals.
clearview knows for absolute certain they’ve been operating in the eu.
>that’s a lot of “what if” wild hypotheticals.
What? No it's not at all - that exact flow happens tens of millions of times per day every single day. Cloudflare handles a plurality of all global internet traffic and makes extensive use of a geographically distributed CDN.
i mean… yes? it’s entirely normal for a company to be bound to the laws of jurisdiction it wants to open a store or restaurant in or whatever. why on earth would this be any different?