Senators are calling for stronger privacy laws to give Facebook users the ability to block the company from using their posts to train its AI models, as users can in the EU.
Facebook parent company Meta has admitted that its millions of Australian users cannot opt out of having their data being used to train the company’s AI models, even as users in the European Union are able to do so.
“I want that same option as the EU, and I want to know why I can’t have it, and why Australians can’t have that same option,” Labor senator Tony Sheldon asked the Meta executive. “Will you give the Australian public the EU option of opting out?” Australia is weighing how to best regulate AI technologies, and Sheldon told this masthead after the hearing the nation’s privacy laws may need an overhaul following the revelations. The federal government has flagged an update to the Privacy Act, but those changes have been delayed multiple times and are yet to be introduced to the parliament.
“It’s not just dishonest, it’s predatory. And if our privacy laws allow this, they need to be changed.” “I’m also really concerned about the total lack of transparency around social media algorithms and the harm they are doing, especially to young people.”Meta has been hit with complaints in 11 countries over its data collection practices, but says it’s simply following the same approach as other AI firms such as Google and OpenAI.
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