The guy who made a tool to track women in porn videos is sorry

Though the programmer—who posted about the project on the Chinese social network Weibo—originally insisted everything was fine because he didn’t make the information public, just collecting the data is illegal if the women didn’t consent, according to Börge Seeger, a data protection expert and partner at German law firm Neuwerk. Though there’s no federal privacy law, California has strong privacy legislation that would block this type of data collection, explains Christina Gagnier, a lawyer and adjunct faculty teaching privacy at UC Irvine School of Law. Because California has so many residents and industries, and data travels across state lines, the state ends up setting privacy law for the rest of the nation.

Source: www.technologyreview.com