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Brazil orders Meta to stop training its AI on personal data
OUR TAKE Meta is similarly stymied by European Union regulators, leading the company to suspend plans to train its AI models on Facebook and Instagram posts in Europe. However, Meta’s updated data collection policy is already in effect in the United States, which lacks similar user privacy protectio…
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OUR TAKE Meta is similarly stymied by European Union regulators, leading the company to suspend plans to train its AI models on Facebook and Instagram posts in Europe. However, Meta’s updated data collection policy is already in effect in the United States, which lacks similar…
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OUR TAKE Meta is similarly stymied by European Union regulators, leading the company to suspend plans to train its AI models on Facebook and Instagram posts in Europe. However, Meta’s updated data collection policy is already in effect in the United States, which lacks similar user privacy protections. –Zora Lin, BTW reporter Brazil’s Data Protection Authority (ANPD) bans Meta from training its AI models on Brazilian personal data, citing “the risk of serious damage and the difficulties it creates for users.”
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Previously, Meta updates its privacy policy in May to allow itself to use public Facebook, Messenger and Instagram data from Brazil, including posts, images and captions, for AI training. The decision follows a report released last month by Human Rights Watch, which find that LAION-5B – one of the largest data sets of image captions used to train AI models – contains personal, identifiable photos of Brazilian children, putting them at risk of deep forgery and other exploitation. According to ANPD, there are 102 million Brazilian users on Facebook alone. The notice issued by the agency on Tuesday gives Meta five business days to comply with the order or face a fine of $8,808 per day. Meta says in a statement that its updated policy “complies with Brazil’s privacy laws and regulations” and that the ruling is “a step backward in terms of innovation and competition in AI development and further delays the benefits of AI to the Brazilian people.”
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- Brazilian Data Protection Authority has banned Meta from accessing Brazilian users’ personal data, or Meta will face fines of $8,808 per day.
- Meta sees the ruling as a step backward for Brazil in terms of innovation and competition in AI development.
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