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Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

Meta admitted that Australian users cannot opt out of their data being used to train AI, unlike users in the European Union, as reported by The Guardian.
Senator Tony Sheldon questioned why Australians lack the opt-out option available to Europeans during a Senate inquiry.
Meta's global privacy director confirmed that Australian users would not receive an AI opt-out option, which was criticized by Senator Sheldon.

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Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can be done?

Facebook acknowledged in a Senate inquiry yesterday that it is scraping the public photos of Australian users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models.

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Meta Probed for Collecting Australians’ Public Data Since 2007 to Train AI Model

An Australian Senate committee has questioned tech giant Meta about the ethics of its decision to use Australians’ photos to train artificial intelligence (AI) without the users’ knowledge. Labor Senator Tony Sheldon, chairman of the Select Committee on Adopting AI, asked Meta’s representatives about whether the company used Australian Instagram and Facebook posts as far back as 2007 to train its AI model, as reported by the media in June 2024. …

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Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do?

vectorfusionart/ShutterstockFacebook acknowledged in a Senate inquiry yesterday that it is scraping the public photos of Australian users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Facebook’s parent company Meta claims this excludes data from users who have marked their posts as “private”, as well as photos or data from users under the age of 18. Since companies such as Meta aren’t required to tell us what data they use or how they use i…

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Meta scraped every Australian user's account to train its AI

Meta scrapes all the photos and texts in all Facebook and Instagram posts in Australia since 2007, unless the user had set their posts to private, Meta's global privacy director Melinda Claybaugh admitted.

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