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.

In short:

Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.

The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law.

What’s next?

Facebook representatives could not say whether an opt-out option would be offered to Australians in the future.

  • ParadachshundEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    My opinion is that if your data or work is within an AI training set you should be given free access to any tools using that data. That’s only fair considering these companies also think everything should be free for them to take.

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nlEnglish
      31·
      3 months ago

      I think you should be able to get all of your data in any dataset or tool deleted whenever you ask them to. Not possible? That’s their problem not yours, should’ve thought of that before collecting all information known to man