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Meta wants to use old Facebook data to train its AI models.
  • A European advocacy group filed complaints in 11 countries over a new Meta AI policy.
  • NOYB, or None of Your Business, said Meta's new policy would let it scrape user data to train AI.
  • Unlike American users, Europeans have an option to opt out of sharing their information.

Meta is scrambling to compete in the red-hot AI arms race, but an advocacy group is demanding nearly a dozen European countries force Meta to pump the breaks.

The European advocacy group announced complaints in 11 European countries over an upcoming Meta policy change that would allow it to scrape old user data from Facebook to train its artificial-intelligence models.

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