according toAustralia ABC News reports.Meta The company admits to collecting public data on all Australian adults on the platform. However, unlike its practice in EU countries, since AustraliaNo relevant laws and regulations in placeAs a result, users are not provided with an "opt-out" option locally.
Melinda Claybaugh, Meta's director of global privacy, initially denied claims that user data from 2007 had been used for AI training in a local government investigation into AI applications, but relented after being asked more questions.
Australian Senator David Hewbridge asked a question saying, "The truth of the matter is, unless you start in 2007Consciously set these posts to privateOtherwise, Meta would have decided that the number of posts on Instagram or Facebook since 2007 was too high.Grab all photos and all text in each public post. That's the truth, isn't it?" Melinda Claybaugh replied, "That's right."
Meta's privacy center, blog posts, and all acknowledge that the company collects public posts and comments from Facebook and Instagram for the purpose ofTraining Generative AI.
- We use public posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram to train generative AI models for these features and the open source community.
- For these purposes, we do not use posts or comments with statuses other than "public".
Users in Europe can opt out of Meta training based on local privacy regulations, but billions of Facebook and Instagram users elsewhere can't avoid having their posts used to train generative AI if they want to keep their posts public.
David Hewbridge said, "Meta has made it clear today that if Australia hasThe same lawWell, then the Australians' dataIt will also be protected.. The government's failure to act on privacy protections means that companies like Meta will continue to monetize and exploit children's images and videos on Facebook."