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Meta ‘admits scraping public data of Australians,’ without any option to opt-out

Facebook is reportedly scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has admitted in an inquiry. Currently, Meta does not provide an opt-out option for Australians as it does for EU citizens, since Australian privacy laws do not require it. Local media, ABC News, reported that Melinda Claybaugh, Meta’s global privacy director, was questioned about whether her company has been using data from Australians to train its generative AI technology.

 

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