Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, appears to have agreed to use Australian user data scraping to train its AI models. Melinda Claybaugh, Meta's global privacy director, revealed that the company has been gathering and utilizing data from public posts, including a broad range of information, including text, images, and status updates on Facebook and Instagram, since 2007. This information was provided during a recent Senate investigation.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, appears to have agreed to use Australian user data scraping to train its AI models. Melinda Claybaugh, Meta's global privacy director, revealed that the company has been gathering and utilizing data from public posts, including a broad range of information, including text, images, and status updates on Facebook and Instagram, since 2007. This information was provided during a recent Senate investigation.