Not claiming this is the result of, but this article is the wet dream of Facebook lobby groups. Facial recognition won’t go anywhere, that ship has sailed, but regulation might restrict which data you’re allowed to use for it and oh boy would Facebook love monopolizing their throve of data and use regulation to fend off any threat to their leading ability to profile individuals.

In the topic of restricting access to others the author says:

But I ask myself: How difficult can it be for a billion dollar revenue company?

Pretty difficult when the law prohibits you[1]. Hopefully that forces regulation to cover the weaponization of technology not access to data. Right now this comes off as; you’re not allowed to enrich uranium, unless you own the land.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...