Meta Hit With Complaint in Norway for Training AI on User Data

Visitors near the Meta Platforms headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US.Photographer: Nick Otto/Bloomberg
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Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a Norwegian complaint over its plans to use the images and posts of users on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence models.

The process to opt-out breaches strict EU data protection rules and “has been made deliberately cumbersome by using deceptive design patterns and vague wording,” the Norwegian Consumer Council said in a statement Thursday.