Facebook Scrapes Every Australian Adult’s Public Data for AI Training—No Opt-Out Option Available 📸

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Summary:

  1. Data Scraping Admission
    Facebook has confirmed it scrapes the public photos, posts, and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models, with no option for users to opt out, unlike in the European Union.

  2. Historical Data Usage
    The data collected includes public posts from as far back as 2007, unless users have manually set their posts to private, highlighting concerns over long-term data harvesting.

  3. Limited Scope
    While accounts of individuals under 18 are excluded, public photos of minors, such as those of users’ own children, are still scraped.

Read more at: ABC

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