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Meta’s AI is scraping users’ photos and posts. Europeans can opt out, but Australians cannot

www.theguardian.com Meta’s AI is scraping users’ photos and posts. Europeans can opt out, but Australians cannot

Meta’s director of privacy policy declines to say whether such an option would be offered to Australians in the future

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solution: australia joins the EU

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- I mean they already take part in the Eurovision so why not? Additional bonus: people will have an even harder time differentiating Austria and Australia
  
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  solution: EU criteria is lowered to Eurovision participation
  
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- American here. Can we come too?
  
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  I suggested this once and someone replied “please no you’ll bring the Republicans into the legislature”
  
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  Please make sure to implement democracy first, we have enough issues with dictatorships and oligopolies already.
  
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  Of course!
  
  Just lose the -
  
  Guns
  
  Tiny-penis trucks
  
  the "right" to hate-speech
  
  the religious weirdo thing
  
  And you'll be getting close to the 20th century!
  
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WhatsApp is my major concern . It’s a BIG issue that every one in Americas and Europe uses that shit. Very concerning.

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- or Messenger
  
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  Another nasty one
  
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- It's a way smaller userbase, but imagine what Facebook does with the Quest headsets
  
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  Ready player one about covers it
  
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activates vpn why yes, I AM a citizen of the EU!

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You CAN opt out of using anything Meta offers. Just don't use that abusive corporate crap!

The fact that they really want to disrespect your privacy, scrape every last morsel of anything they can get there grubby mits on for serving you ads, and feed you altered propaganda and shit that they think you should see says volumes about you if you allow them to do that to you. It says a lot about the Australian government too then. Here's EU taking these greedy corporate monsters to task while Australia is talking about giving them EVEN MORE personal information by trying to enforce ineffective faulty age verification with biometric government issued ID on social media. Just walk away.

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- there's shadow profiles, they track you even if you never go on Facebook.com.
  
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Public posts only... Not private posts. Honestly, if you ever post anything publicly on the internet (on any site, including here on Lemmy), you should assume it's going to be used for all sorts of things.

I have no doubt that Lemmy posts are part of the data being ingested into AI training. Lemmy and other Fediverse apps are extremely easy to scrape since anyone can subscribe to a Lemmy community, Mastodon account, etc with ActivityPub and get all new posts and comments pushed to them. Don't even have to actually scrape anything.

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Meta don't scrape user data...they already have it stored neatly in databases with supporting APIs

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This is why i done use meta shit. Among other reasons.

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I mean, Australians won't care a lot after Europeans have scraped their continent

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False. Everyone can opt out of Facebook.

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- No, you can't. They collect your data even if you've never had an account, or if you've deleted your account.
  
  https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-profiles-zuckerberg-congress-data-privacy
  
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- False. They'll track whether you have an account or not. Even NoScript won't completely disable their tracking. If you use the web, Meta is watching you.
  
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  Joke's on them. I go to all those weird porn sites just so they won't know the real me. I would never be interested in such filth. It's so that their A.I. will get confused, get hoodwinked. Yup. That's why I do that.
  
  Now if you'll excuse me, I must go mess up their algorithm again.
  
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Oh, look, a news headline from five years ago

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