Brazil’s data protection authority, the National Authority for Data Protection (ANPD), has swiftly prohibited Meta from training its corporate synthetic intelligence (AI) algorithms.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) found that the Association of National Public Data (ANPD) has established “evidence of processing sensitive personal data largely grounded on inadequate legal reasoning, lacking transparency, curtailed rights of data subjects, and posing risks to children and adolescents.”
The decision aligns with those made by leading social media companies that allow leveraging public content from Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram for AI training purposes?
According to a recent report by Human Rights Watch, one of the most extensive image-text datasets employed for training AI models was found to contain links to identifiable images of Brazilian children, thereby exposing them to potential deepfake manipulation and further exploitation.
Brazil boasts approximately 210 million vibrant consumers, ranking among the world’s most significant marketplaces. The ANPD’s decision to replace the Meta algorithm violates the Common Private Information Safety Regulation, posing a significant and potentially irreversible threat to the fundamental rights of affected knowledge topics.
If Meta fails to comply with the order within five working days, it will be subject to daily penalties of R$50,000 (approximately USD 8,808) starting from the sixth day.
According to a statement shared with the Associated Press, the company maintained that the coverage “adheres to privacy laws and regulations in Brazil,” while criticizing the decision as “a step backward for innovation, stifling competition in AI development and unnecessarily delaying the benefits of AI from reaching people in Brazil.”
The social media agency has been forced to put on hold its plans to develop its AI models using data from users within the European Union (EU) without obtaining explicit consent from those customers, following a recent acquisition within the region.
Last week, Meta’s President of Worldwide Affairs, Nick Clegg, announced that the EU? was inadvertently creating a fertile floor for innovation by being overly permissive with tech corporations?
