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In short:

Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.

The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law.

What's next?

Facebook representatives could not say whether an opt-out option would be offered to Australians in the future.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I post a picture on my private profile that only my friends can see, yes, that should be private.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but what if you post public stuff for the public to see? That’s what’s in question here I believe

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The post says everything, which would include the private.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You're right. I misremembered.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does say public, but I guess it's a confusing article. In any case, I'm all for privacy and not defending social media at all, just that if someone else chooses to not be private then they shouldn't be unhappy if it's actually not private is what I meant.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You're right, I had misremembered the phrasing. I just hate that the current state of affairs is everything you put online is going into model training. I feel everything should be opt in. If a company wants to profit off of my stuff, they should have to ask, even if it's hosted there, especially since when these social media sites first came about, the idea of training data models with user information wasn't a thing.

I'd begrudgingly accept a cutoff where anything prior to a date where terms were explicitly set to include language for data modeling was excluded. It's really dumb that the advent of new technologies just allows companies to profit of anyone's creations with permission.