Meta suspends AI tools in Brazil amid data protection dispute

Meta has reportedly suspended its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in Brazil after one of the country’s regulators objected to part of the company’s privacy policy.

In early July, the Brazilian Data Protection Authority (ANPD) suspended the validity of Meta’s new privacy policy, saying the company had to exclude the section on the processing of personal data for the training of generative AI, Reuters reported Thursday (July 17).

Meta told Reuters that will suspend The AI tools in Brazil while discussions are underway with the ANPD to address the issue, the report said.

This move comes about a month after Meta announced it would pause the planned launch of its AI assistant. Meta-AIin Europe after the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), on behalf of the European Data protection authorities (DPAs), asked to postpone training its large language models (LLMs) with content shared by adults on metas. Facebook And Instagram platforms.

“We want to make meta-AI and the models on which it is based accessible to more people. around the worldalso in Europe,” said Meta in a statement on 14 June To update To a previous blog post. “But, simply put, without incorporating local information, we would only be able to provide people with a second-class experience. That means we are not able to are currently introducing Meta AI in Europe.”

On 6 June, the Vienna-based data protection group NOYB – the European Centre for Digital Rights — stated that it had filed complaints with 11 European countries on the grounds that Meta’s use of User data violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU) in its planned AI practices.

“Meta is basically and says it can “use any data from any source for any purpose and make it available to anyone in the world” as long as it does so through “AI technology,” says NOYB founder Max Schrems he said in a press release at the time. “This is clearly the opposite of GDPR compliance.”

A Meta spokesperson, reached by PYMNTS for comment at the time, referred to a company blog post that said the company’s approach was “consistent with how other technology companies are developing and improving their AI experiences in Europe.”

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