Ten days after complaints were filed in eleven EU countries by Noyb, the Austrian privacy protection association (see EUROPE 13428/11), the Meta group announced in a press release on Friday 14 June that it was suspending the development of its artificial intelligence model.
From 26 June, the platform planned to utilise its users’ public messages, posted photos and other personal browsing data to train its future AI technology.
Noyb, for its part, considered that Meta could retrieve “any data from any source for any purpose and make it available to anyone in the world”, in direct violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Meta’s decision follows a request from the DPC, the Irish data protection authority. The American company has defended itself by arguing that its process is more transparent than that of its competitors, pointing out that Google and OpenAI have “already used data from Europeans to train their AI”. (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)