Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the European Union to refuse consent.

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Senators are calling for stronger privacy laws to give Facebook users the ability to block the company from using their posts to train its AI models, as users can in the EU.

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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

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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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Photos and posts Australians have shared on Facebook and Instagram dating back to 2007 are being used to train Meta's generative AI tools.

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Social media giant does not provide Australians with opt-out option as it does for EU users, since privacy laws in Australia do not mandate it - Anadolu Ajansı

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Facebook admits scraping Australian user data for AI without opt-out option

Meta has been using Instagram and Facebook user photos and posts train generative AI models.

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Meta defends taking Australian user data to train AI tools

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 admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law

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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

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