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Meta exposed for data scraping all of Australians’ public posts for 17 years

Article by Grace Harmon  |  Sep 11, 2024
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The news: Meta has been scraping all public data from Facebook and Instagram users in Australia since 2007.

  • This applies to photos and texts in all public posts, including photos of children posted by their parents.
  • Users in Australia—and in the US—don’t have an opt-out option for data scraping, which has been provided to users in the EU and the UK.

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