The Human Rights Watch article mentioned in the article on photos of Australian children has also had an impact in Brazil, where the government has now blocked Meta from training AI on Brazilian personal data. The Paypers reports: Data protection authority in Brazil (ANPD) has blocked Meta from training its AI models on Brazilian personal data, citing…
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Photos of Australian children used in dataset to train AI, human rights group says
Josh Taylor reports: Photos of Australian children have been included in the dataset used by several AI image-generating tools without the knowledge or consent of them or their families, research by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found. An analysis of less than 0.0001% of the 5.85bn images contained in the Laion-5B dataset, used by services…
Meta defends charging fee for privacy amid showdown with EU
Ashley Belanger reports: Meta continues to hit walls with its heavily scrutinized plan to comply with the European Union’s strict online competition law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), by offering Facebook and Instagram subscriptions as an alternative for privacy-inclined users who want to opt out of ad targeting. Today, the European Commission (EC) announced preliminary findings that…
Migration 5: The truth about the shadowy scheme to check identities
The independent research that informs this reporting was funded through a Fulbright scholarship undertaken at Georgetown University in Washington DC. The views and information do not represent the Fulbright Programme, the US government or the New Zealand Government. By Gill Bonnett of RNZ What started as a scheme to check the identities of a few thousand asylum…