Except the EU has already told them fuck off, or they will shut down their EU operations. Did they resolve that?
Probably they don’t give a f*ck about it and once they can pay the resulting fine from the petty cash, they just won’t mind… 💩
Fines for violating GDPR can be up to 4% of the previous year’s global revenue. Not just profits. Not just within EU. They’d have to fully withdraw from the EU market to flaunt the law this egregiously.
Or consider they might find 4% worth it
Statista puts their 2024 GR at $164 billion. That would make a max fine of $6.5 billion per year. I’d almost be willing to just take that deal.
Could also be a good option but there will be a loophole for sure.
People based in the EU who use our platforms can choose to object to their public data being used for training purposes.
And last in the article it says it works with EU regulators to ensure its legal, basically.
Also, they are only allowed to use post, comments etc from adults.
So yeah, they probably scrape less data in EU. At least what they are telling.
Maybe, but I won’t believe anything Meta says about their actions being legal until an EU court comments on it. I just know Meta has been in hot water with EU a few times for collecting data they shouldn’t.
“For training purposes”, do you know how many other purposes they have? For research, for improvement, for genuine interests, for selling, for people who can’t read between the lines.
Yeah, but I think they are already allowed to do that, if you dont opt out. This is about AI training with data from their own platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, where they werent allowed before.
They harvest your data to sell like they did yesterday. Nobody should be fooled by that.
They won’t shut down EU operation. Come on guys.
I was thinking, not on my data! (as I’m not a user of theirs)
But that’s probably where I’m wrong. Fuck facebook, go out of business!
Just let me turn off the pos meta ai in WhatsApp. My family and friends won’t switch and I just don’t want to use the crap
Is there any way to disable it already? Can’t find anything in Instagram/Meta account settings
