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Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp (www.niemanlab.org)

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The updated terms explicitly state that Meta can use the content it collects from associated websites to “train” Meta products. Elsewhere in its terms of service, the company defines “AI at Meta” as one of those products.

I would have assumed they were already doing that.

Reminds me of why I quit WhatsApp, they started requiring uploading your entire phone address book and I wasn't willing to allow that.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

GrapheneOS solves this with contact scopes, but yea just leave it uninstalled if you don't need it

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

They probably were, but now it's (questionably) legal!