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Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

In short:

Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.

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.

What’s next?

Facebook representatives could not say whether an opt-out option would be offered to Australians in the future.

_edge ,

Yes, but they are all up-side down.

Paradachshund ,

My opinion is that if your data or work is within an AI training set you should be given free access to any tools using that data. That’s only fair considering these companies also think everything should be free for them to take.

wise_pancake ,

Well that’s fun

I’m not Australian, and I don’t post on Facebook.

But my family posts on Facebook, including pictures of me. I hate that I didn’t consent to any of this, yet they’ve fed my face into their AI tools.

dutchkimble ,

So stuff people post publicly should be private?

BassTurd ,

If I post a picture on my private profile that only my friends can see, yes, that should be private.

pearsaltchocolatebar ,

I mean, the data was public. Literally anyone could scrape it

paraphrand ,

I read this in Trump’s debate voice.

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

It’s probably not just adults

can ,

Ms Claybaugh added that accounts of people under 18 were not scraped, but when asked by Senator Sheldon whether public photos of his own children on his account would be scraped, Ms Claybaugh acknowledged they would.

The Facebook representative could not answer whether the company scraped data from previous years of users who were now adults, but were under 18 when they created their accounts.

Welp

jettrscga ,

The Facebook representative could not answer whether…

This guy’s terrible at his job. Even I can answer that one.

Abso-fucking-lutely yes.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Say it with me now:

Everything you submit to a platform becomes property of that platform.

AbidanYre ,

But… I posted that copy pasta on my feed about how I didn’t give Facebook permission to scrape my data. Are you telling me that wasn’t legally binding?

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

“couldn’t hurt!”

wise_pancake ,

And your family posted, and your friends posted.

Paradachshund ,

This is a key factor. It’s not possible to avoid being in their system at this point unless you live under a rock.

Shard ,

This is what happens when you have a government with lack luster privacy laws.

EU citizens have less to worry over this.

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot ,

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