Thanks to Europe’s strong privacy regulations, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) was forced to offer all EU citizens the option to opt out of training its AI models.
This should be opt-out by default for all countries, but Meta will do everything to get as much data from you as possible as long as regulators aren’t paying attention. Hopefully, sooner rather than later, other countries will follow Europe’s lead.
Why should I opt out?
By now, you would need more than two hands to count how many times Meta sold and used user data in unethical ways. Ask yourself whether you want such a company to use your public posts, photos, chats and interactions in its AI training datasets.
How to opt-out?
Direct link to opt out for Facebook.
Direct link to opt out for Instagram.
Once you are done
For EU users the objections are honored immediately and unconditionally.
That's what the emails you'll receive after opting out say. What they'll do is a different matter, but that's up to the regulators to deal with, nothing we can do about it.
Not from EU? No problem!
Delete your Facebook and Instagram accounts today, and you’ll never have to worry about opting out of anything ever again. Of course, we understand this might not be a viable option for everyone, but we feel that we are obligated to remind about it.