The ABC’s political reporter Jake Evans:

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user’s public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option.

He writes:

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

In theory the 2020 Privacy Act means this should not happen in New Zealand, but it probably does.

The Act applies to overseas businesses like Facebook. If they do business in New Zealand they have to comply with local standards over data collected here.

If you’ve got any insight into this please share.