Meta halts plans to train machine learning on Facebook, Instagram posts in EU

It seems that if you want to steer clear from having Facebook use your Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc. data for machine learning training, you might want to consider moving to the European Union.

Meta has apparently paused plans to process mounds of user data to bring new AI experiences to Europe.

The decision comes afterdata regulators rebuffedthe tech giant'sclaimsthat it had legitimate interests" in processing European Union- and European Economic Area (EEA)-based Facebook and Instagram users' data-including personal posts and pictures-to train future AI tools.

Ashley Belanger

These are just the opening salvos of the legal war that's brewing here, so who knows how it's going to turn out. For now, though, European Union Facebook users are safe from Facebook's machine learning training.