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

  • @[email protected] 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 🤗