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

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  1. > The company provided an opt out option to EU users in part because of legal uncertainty surrounding strict privacy laws covering those nations.

    Hopefully Albo will find time to give us privacy laws after he’s finished flooding the country with immigrants.

  2. Yeah my sister heard about this a month or two ago and deleted all the pics of her kids on her page. I said they still have them just not on your page… I remember seeing a post where someone deleted a pic and was still able to access the image with a direct link so they never really delete anything even if you do.

  3. I hard deleted Facebook about 6 months ago, I am sure they still scraped my photos but at least those fucks won’t get anything from me for the rest of my life.

    Facebook is dead, treat it that way.

  4. GaryTheGuineaPig on

    According to their terms of service, you own all the content and information you post on Facebook However, by using Facebook, you grant them a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post. This means that while you retain ownership, Facebook has the right to use, distribute, and share your content as they see fit.

    I stopped using Facebook & whatsapp years ago when I realised they were scraping text keywords and using it to advertise on Facebook.

    In Australia, you need to be 13 to setup a Facebook, the capacity to consent to the use of personal information is assessed on a case-by-case basis. There is no specific minimum age set by law for this.

    Labor are seeking to change this (I think)

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