Meta confirms using user data to train #Artificial Intelligence models; Europeans can opt-out.  

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/31/meta-is-using-your-data-ai/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Meta is using your data to train AI models; Europeans can opt out - 9to5Mac

Artificial Intelligence

Meta confirms using user data to train #Artificial Intelligence models; Europeans can opt-out.    https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/31/meta-is-using-your-data-ai/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Cyril

Sadly becoming the norm.  X also changed its privacy policy to note that it will allow third-party collaborators to train AI models on X data, unless users opt out. 

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/elon-musks-x-is-changing-its-privacy-policy-to-allow-third-parties-to-train-ai-on-your-posts/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=threads

Sadly becoming the norm.  X also changed its privacy policy to note that it will allow third-party collaborators to train AI models on X data, unless users opt out.   https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/elon-musks-x-is-changing-its-privacy-policy-to-allow-third-parties-to-train-ai-on-your-posts/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=threads

On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party "collaborators" to train their AI

Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts | TechCrunch

Sam Mendoza

Zuckerberg and Other CEOs Ask EU to Change Data Privacy Rules For AI

https://euneedsai.com/?utm_campaign=[REBRAND]%20[TI-AM]%20Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124#signatories

Zuckerberg and Other CEOs Ask EU to Change Data Privacy Rules For AI  https://euneedsai.com/?utm_campaign=[REBRAND]%20[TI-AM]%20Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124#signatories

Join leading companies and researchers calling for AI regulatory certainty in Europe. Read the open letter urging EU policymakers to adopt pro-innovation policies.

Ensuring AI innovation in Europe: Open letter to EU policymakers

Todd Smith

Meta acknowledged that it scrapes public photos, posts and data of Australian adult Instagram and Facebook users to train its AI models with NO opt-out option. Something else to not be sorry for! 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170?ref=platformer.news

Meta faces massive settlement — in the United States: Accustomed as we are to seeing the EU levy massive fines against American tech giants, here we have a twist. Texas has secured a $1.4 billion settlement from Meta for “illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent,” Reuters reports.


https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/meta-platforms-pay-14-bln-settle-texas-lawsuit-over-facial-recognition-data-2024-07-30/?utm_source=thisweekinstartups.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=meta-faces-the-music-in-texas-perplexity-inks-publisher-deals-and-open-source-ai-flourishes

Meta faces massive settlement — in the United States: Accustomed as we are to seeing the EU levy massive fines against American tech giants, here we have a twist. Texas has secured a $1.4 billion settlement from Meta for “illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent,” Reuters reports.   https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/meta-platforms-pay-14-bln-settle-texas-lawsuit-over-facial-recognition-data-2024-07-30/?utm_source=thisweekinstartups.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=meta-faces-the-music-in-texas-perplexity-inks-publisher-deals-and-open-source-ai-flourishes

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent.

Meta to pay $1.4 billion to settle Texas facial recognition data lawsuit

Meta acknowledged that it scrapes public photos, posts and data of Australian adult Instagram and Facebook users to train its AI models with NO opt-out option. Something else to not be sorry for!   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170?ref=platformer.news

Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the Europ

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

Nate

LinkedIn opts you into AI training: Collecting data for use in AI models is a race. The more quality and unique data that a tech company commands, the more unique — and potentially more valuable — their AI models can be. Hence, LinkedIn is making waves this week by opting users into its training data collection efforts. You can opt-out, but shouldn’t the opting go the other way around?

https://www.thestack.technology/linkedin-trains-ai-on-personal-data/

LinkedIn opts you into AI training: Collecting data for use in AI models is a race. The more quality and unique data that a tech company commands, the more unique — and potentially more valuable — their AI models can be. Hence, LinkedIn is making waves this week by opting users into its training data collection efforts. You can opt-out, but shouldn’t the opting go the other way around?  https://www.thestack.technology/linkedin-trains-ai-on-personal-data/

Cyril

A group of likeminded people in Digital Wellness 📱🧘 are talking about this.