Meta's plans to use customer data in AI training have resulted in complaints to data protection authorities in 11 European countries.
Meta faces several complaints in Europe over plans to train AI with user data #sysadmin
The complaints were filed by privacy activist group noyb following updates to Meta's privacy policy. The updates are set to go live worldwide on June 26.
The main issue, according to noyb, is proposals by Meta to use years of everyone's posts — including images — "to develop and improve AI on Meta." Private messages between the user and friends and family are not used to train the company's AIs.
Instead of Meta asking for consent, users must opt out of data slurping by default, although not everyone can opt out. And once the data is fed into the models, there seems to be no option to scrub it. The Registry asked Meta how a user would go about deleting their data, and the mega-biz has yet to respond on that point.
