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Facebook wants to scan all your pictures so that Meta can train AI. Let us tell you what you should do in such a situation.
Highlights
- Facebook wants to scan your photos to train Meta AI.
- Turn off the Cloud Processing feature.
- Meta can scan and analyze your personal photos.
New Delhi. Mark Zuckerberg’s company Meta is again in controversy. According to a new report, Facebook is now demanding users to reach photos of their phones, whether photos have been uploaded or shared. According to Techchchan, a new AI feature ‘Cloud Processing’ gives the company accessible to private photos stored in the users’ devices. According to the report, when some users were trying to upload the story on Facebook, they saw a prompt asking if they want to enable this tool. If they had agreed, Meta regularly scanned their phone photo gallery and uploaded images to their cloud. In return, this feature gives creative suggestions such as photo collages, birthday recopes and AI-birthted content.
By turning on this feature, you are constantly giving Meta to scan and analyze your personal photos. AI can identify face, places, objects and timestamps in your photo. It also reads the metadata of the photo, such as when and where the photo was taken.
Meta has said that this feature is option and users can close it. If you disable this feature, the meta promises that it will remove your photo from your cloud within 30 days. But experts say that it is being introduced as a fun and creative tool, so that users can accept it without understanding it completely. However, this is not the first time that Meta has raised concerns about privacy. The company has admitted that it has been using Public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI since 2007. But he never clearly explained what is the meaning of “public” content or what is the age to consider someone to be an adult.
What you should do:
Open your Facebook app and see if the cloud processing feature is on. If it is on, then turn it off so that Meta cannot scan and upload the private photos of your phone continuously. Apart from this, be careful before giving the app access to your full photo gallery, especially if you do not fully know how your data can be used. Privacy experts recommend that the user be cautious, as the one who looks like an auxiliary tool may actually be the way to collect more personal information for Meta.