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My oh my. From ABC News Australia: "Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option." (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 months ago by _elena@mastodon.social to c/privacy@fedia.io

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My oh my. From ABC News Australia: "Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option."

A summary:

"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."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170

BTW the ABC News website has links to Facebook, Instagram and X but no Fediverse profiles. So their posts are used to train #Llama

#BigTech #AI #privacy #Meta

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[–] andrijson@mastodon.au 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@_elena@mastodon.social I haven't had a facebook account for ten years but I'm about to create one to acquire IT work (hopefully) on a freelance basis
I'll be making sure its not on my phone. Thanks

[–] _elena@mastodon.social 1 points 2 months ago

@andrijson@mastodon.au yeah I keep Threads and Instagram on a separate phone (an old iPhone SE) that has a different Apple ID, washi tape over the cameras, a dongle to physically block microphone access, an empty address book and empty camera roll. I don't trust them one bit!

And I rarely post on those apps anyways... just to Threads to tell people to migrate to the (real) Fediverse 🤗