Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt out option
By Jake Evans
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.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170
#SocialMedia #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #InternetCulture #InformationTechnologyIndustry #JakeEvans
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