Privacy Commissioner Rejects Meta’s Request to Relax Privacy Rules to Enhance AI

Privacy Commissioner Rejects Meta’s Request to Relax Privacy Rules to Enhance AI

Australian Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has rejected tech giant Meta’s proposal that Australia needs to relax its privacy regulations to facilitate the development of AI. Meta has recently made a submission (pdf) to an inquiry on digital technologies and the harvesting of personal data, where the company argued that Australia is “out of step with international norms” regarding privacy regulations. This comes after the country has strengthened…

Australian National Review - Privacy Commissioner Rejects Meta’s Request to Relax Privacy Rules to Enhance AI

A smartphone and a computer screen displaying the logos of the Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and their parent company Meta in Toulouse, southwestern France, on Jan. 12, 2023. Lionel Bovaventure/AFP via Getty Images Australian Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has rejected tech giant Meta’s proposal that Australia needs to relax its privacy regulations to facilitate the development of AI. Meta has recently made a submission (pdf) to an inquiry on…