Meta to Disclose AI Data Usage to Brazilian Users

Meta to inform Brazilians how it uses their personal data to train AI

Social media giant Meta Platforms will inform Brazilians how it intends to use their personal data to train generative artificial intelligence (AI), it said on Tuesday, following a demand from the country's data protection watchdog. Meta's users in Brazil will receive the warnings starting on Tuesday by email and notifications on Facebook and Instagram, and will be able to reject the use of their data by the firm to train generative AI, it said in a statement. Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) in July suspended Meta's new privacy policy over the use of personal data to train AI, but overturned this last Friday saying Meta had agreed to issue the disclosures. In July, Meta also actively suspended the use of generative AI tools in Brazil, which included tools used to create popular AI-made stickers for messaging platform WhatsApp. Brazil is WhatsApp's second-largest customer base. At the time, Meta said it had decided to suspend the tools while it was in talks with ANPD to address the authority's doubts over its use of generative AI. Asked by Reuters on Tuesday if it would resume the tools after ANPD lifted the suspension, Meta only reaffirmed that the suspension had been issued while it was in talks with the ANPD.

Meta to Inform Brazilians How It Uses Their Personal Data to Train AI

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Social media giant Meta Platforms will inform Brazilians how it intends to use their personal data to train generative artificial intelligence (AI), it said on Tuesday, following a demand from the country's data protection watchdog. Meta's users in Brazil will receive the warnings starting on Tuesday by email and notifications on Facebook and Instagram, and will be able to reject the use of their data by the firm to train generative AI, it said in a statement. Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) in July suspended Meta's new privacy policy over the use of personal data to train AI, but overturned this last Friday saying Meta had agreed to issue the disclosures. In July, Meta also actively suspended the use of generative AI tools in Brazil, which included tools used to create popular AI-made stickers for messaging platform WhatsApp. Brazil is WhatsApp's second-largest customer base. At the time, Meta said it had decided to suspend the tools while it was in talks with ANPD to address the authority's doubts over its use of generative AI. Asked by Reuters on Tuesday if it would resume the tools after ANPD lifted the suspension, Meta only reaffirmed that the suspension had been issued while it was in talks with the ANPD. (Reporting by Paula Arend Laier and Andre Romani in Sao Paulo; Editing by Stephen Coates)

Meta to inform Brazilians how it uses their personal data to train AI

Social media giant Meta Platforms will inform Brazilians how it intends to use their personal data to train generative artificial intelligence (AI), it said on Tuesday, following a demand from the country's data protection watchdog. Meta's users in Brazil will receive the warnings starting on Tuesday by email and notifications on Facebook and Instagram, and will be able to reject the use of their data by the firm to train generative AI, it said in a statement. Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) in July suspended Meta's new privacy policy over the use of personal data to train AI, but overturned this last Friday saying Meta had agreed to issue the disclosures. Brazil Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds judge's decision to block X nationwide In July, Meta also actively suspended the use of generative AI tools in Brazil, which included tools used to create popular AI-made stickers for messaging platform WhatsApp. Brazil is WhatsApp's second-largest customer base. At the time, Meta said it had decided to suspend the tools while it was in talks with ANPD to address the authority's doubts over its use of generative AI. Asked by Reuters on Tuesday if it would resume the tools after ANPD lifted the suspension, Meta only reaffirmed that the suspension had been issued while it was in talks with the ANPD. Read Comments

Meta to inform Brazilians how it uses their personal data to train AI

SAO PAULO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Social media giant Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab will inform Brazilians how it intends to use their personal data to train generative artificial intelligence (AI), it said on Tuesday, following a demand from the country's data protection watchdog. Meta's users in Brazil will receive the warnings starting on Tuesday by email and notifications on Facebook and Instagram, and will be able to reject the use of their data by the firm to train generative AI, it said in a statement. Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) in July suspended Meta's new privacy policy over the use of personal data to train AI, but overturned this last Friday saying Meta had agreed to issue the disclosures. In July, Meta also actively suspended the use of generative AI tools in Brazil, which included tools used to create popular AI-made stickers for messaging platform WhatsApp. Brazil is WhatsApp's second-largest customer base. At the time, Meta said it had decided to suspend the tools while it was in talks with ANPD to address the authority's doubts over its use of generative AI. Asked by Reuters on Tuesday if it would resume the tools after ANPD lifted the suspension, Meta only reaffirmed that the suspension had been issued while it was in talks with the ANPD. Reporting by Paula Arend Laier and Andre Romani in Sao Paulo; Editing by Stephen Coates Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

Meta to inform Brazilians how it uses their personal data to train AI

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Social media giant Meta Platforms will inform Brazilians how it intends to use their personal data to train generative artificial intelligence (AI), it said on Tuesday, following a demand from the country's data protection watchdog. Meta's users in Brazil will receive the warnings starting on Tuesday by email and notifications on Facebook and Instagram, and will be able to reject the use of their data by the firm to train generative AI, it said in a statement.

Meta to inform Brazilian users how it uses personal data to train AI models

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) will inform users in Brazil how it plans to use their personal data to train generative AI models, following a demand from the country's data protection authority, Reuters reported. Starting Tuesday, users of Meta in Brazil will receive the warnings by email and notifications on Facebook and Instagram, and will be able to reject the use of their data by the company to train generative AI, the report added. In July, Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANDP) suspended Meta's new privacy policy over the use of personal data to train AI. The agency, however, overturned the decision last week noting that Meta had agreed to issue the disclosures, the report noted. Meta had actively suspended the use of generative AI features, including tools used to create AI-made stickers for messaging app WhatsApp, in Brazil in July. The social media giant had said at the time that it took the decision to suspend the tools while it was in talks with the Brazilian data protection regulator to address the agency's concerns over its use of generative AI. Meta reiterated that the suspension was issued while it was in talks with the ANPD, on being asked if the company would resume the AI tools as the agency had removed the suspension, the report added. Generative AI services have taken the world by storm since the launch of Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022. Companies worldwide are developing their own large language model, or LLMs, which require large amounts of data to be trained on. Some companies, developing AI models, are facing lawsuits over alleged misuse of copyrighted material. Previously, separate groups of authors had filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta over the alleged misuse of works to train the companies' LLMs, which power their AI chatbots. Recently, AI startup Anthropic was facing a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who alleged that the San Francisco-based company misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI chatbot Claude.

Meta promises user alerts in Brazil after regulators restrict training AI models using personal data - MEDIANAMA

After the EU, Meta received another blow in its attempt to use the personal data of users to train AI models as the Brazilian data protection authority imposed fines and restrictions on it. This has resulted in the company introducing measures to be compliant by notifying people of AI data processing. Meta says that it will inform its Brazilian users how it intends to use their personal data to train AI models, according to a report by Reuters. Meta users in the country will receive warnings about data processing on Facebook and Instagram by email and notifications and can restrict the company from using their data to train AI as well. This comes after Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) restricted Meta from using Brazilians' data to train its AI models in July this year. The authority stated that in case the company failed to comply with its order, it would have to pay a fine of 50,000 Brazilian Real ($8,851) per day of non-compliance. The authority held that allowing Meta to train AI models based on user data would pose an imminent risk of serious damage to people's fundamental rights. As per the Reuters report, the new opt-out approach is Meta's response to a request by the Brazilian data protection authority. Brazil's actions and Meta's decision to allow Brazilians to withdraw consent for data processing follow a similar decision in the European Union. In June this year, Meta informed users in the EU that it would be using their data to train its AI models unless they withdrew consent. This led the advocacy group, None of Your Business (NOYB) to file complaints against the company in 11 nations. NYOB argued that Meta was not giving users any information about the future AI that would use their data for training, which violates the requirements of the General Data Protection Rules (GDPR). Soon after, Meta delayed its plans of using public data on Facebook and Instagram to train AI after a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission. Further, the company pushed back against NYOB's complaints and said that Europeans would be "ill-served by AI models that are not informed by Europe's rich cultural, social, and historical contributions." Meta has since canceled the launch of its multimodal AI model in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment. Unlike the EU and Brazil, Meta is using Indian users' data to train its AI models and its policy about the same has been effective since December 27, 2023. Unlike the other two regions, Indians don't have the option of opting out. Further, as per the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act, 2023), companies are allowed to use publicly available personal data without any consent or without adhering to the provisions of the act.