Your personal data on Facebook and Instagram may be used from June 26 by Meta to train its artificial intelligence. We’ll explain it to you.
You may have received a warning message recently when opening your Facebook or Instagram account. A message like you might get regularly, announcing an update to the privacy policy.
This has the particularity that it concerns the use of the personal data of its users, as part of the extension of “Meta AI experiments”, indicates the message.
What information is used?
In the tab that explains “where Meta gets training information from the models”, it is indicated that are used “information that is publicly available online as well as information shared about Meta services and products”. In short, publications, photos, captions… On the other hand, Facebook ensures that private messages are not used to train the AI.
As BFM reminds us, Meta is developing its own generative artificial intelligence, in the same way as Google or Open AI.
It is however possible to object to this update by refusing to allow your personal data to be subject to such processing by the company. On Instagram for example, this page offers to fill out a form to justify opposition to the recovery of your data for AI training.
Possibility to object but…
The fact remains that even in the event of opposition, this must be justified and validated by Meta’s services. The fact that the company reserves the right to approve or not approve your request raises questions, under European data protection legislation, raises France Info.
On the other hand, even if your request is accepted, in certain cases, data concerning you may still be used. “This could happen if you or your information: appears in an image shared on our products or services by someone who uses them or is mentioned in posts or captions shared by a third party about our products or services.”
