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noyb urges 11 DPAs to immediately stop Meta's abuse of personal data for AI

Artificial Intelligence Over the past few days, Meta has informed millions of Europeans that its privacy policy is changing once again.

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Artificial Intelligence Over the past few days, Meta has informed millions of Europeans that its privacy policy is changing once again. Only on closer inspection of the links in the notification did it become clear that the company plans to use years of personal posts, private images or online tracking data for an undefined "AI technology" that can ingest personal data from any source and share any information with undefined "third parties". Instead of asking users for their consent (opt-in), Meta argues that it has a legitimate interest that overrides the fundamental right to data protection and privacy of European users. Once their data in the system, users seem to have no option of ever having it removed ("right to be forgotten"). noyb has now filed complaints in 11 European countries, asking the authorities to launch an urgency procedure to stop this change immediately, before it comes into force on 26 June 2024. 11 complaints (filed in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, It

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