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Meta’s AI is scraping users’ photos and posts. Europeans can opt out, but Australians cannot
Meta’s director of privacy policy declines to say whether such an option would be offered to Australians in the future
Labor’s chair of the inquiry examining AI adoption in Australia, senator Tony Sheldon, questioned Meta executives on Tuesday why that option had not been extended to Australian users. The Greens senator David Shoebridge said that meant that Australians would have had to set posts back to the start of their use of Facebook to private. Sheldon said there were millions of Australians who used Facebook and Instagram who have not consented to using their photos, their videos, or the record of their lives and families to train an AI model.
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