Updated Meta's plan to expand its AI presence in South America has been hampered, with Brazilian officials today banning Facebook's parent company from using its citizens' data to train AI algorithms.
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The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) issued what it described today as a "preventive measure" that would immediately cancel changes made last month to Meta's privacy policy that added the company's AI training to its explanation of how it processes user data.
"After a preliminary analysis, given the risk of serious and difficult to repair damage to the users, the authority provisionally ordered the suspension of the privacy policy and processing," the ANPD said in a message that we automatically translated from Portuguese to English.
The two new specific mentions of why AI is trained on user data we dug out of the recesses of Meta's June privacy policy update – click to enlarge
