Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the European Union to refuse consent.

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.

  • @auzyEnglish
    1•2 months ago

    Jokes on them. Facebook in Australia is an absolute cesspool.

    And nobody from Facebook is doing anything with the reports

    So, the only application for this data is to build a bot which acts like an asshole and make photos of cars which assholes own.