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.
It’s probably not just adults
Ms Claybaugh added that accounts of people under 18 were not scraped, but when asked by Senator Sheldon whether public photos of his own children on his account would be scraped, Ms Claybaugh acknowledged they would.
The Facebook representative could not answer whether the company scraped data from previous years of users who were now adults, but were under 18 when they created their accounts.
Welp
The Facebook representative could not answer whether…
This guy’s terrible at his job. Even I can answer that one.
Abso-fucking-lutely yes.
the job doesn’t involve telling the truth
Jokes on them. Facebook in Australia is an absolute cesspool.
And nobody from Facebook is doing anything with the reports
So, the only application for this data is to build a bot which acts like an asshole and make photos of cars which assholes own.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170
