Meta scrapes all the photos and texts in all Facebook and Instagram posts in Australia since 2007, unless the user had set their posts to private, Meta's global privacy director Melinda Claybaugh admitted.

Meta Platforms will begin training its AI models using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months, the company said, after it had paused the training in the region following a regulatory backlash.

Meta admitted to scraping public Facebook and Instagram posts and photos of adults dating back as far as 2007 to train its AI models.

Meta has confirmed that it’s restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase. The announcement comes three months after Facebook’s parent company paused its plans due to regulatory pressure in the U.

After engaging with local regulators, Meta is planning to resume the training of its AI models using public Facebook and Instagram posts from adults in the UK.

Meta is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on Facebook and Instagram, a top official has acknowledged in an inquiry. The company does not offer Australians an option to opt out like it does in the EU,