Brazil regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models

A person stands in front of a Meta sign outside of the company’s headquarters in California. Meta has been banned from data mining for AI purposes in Brazil (Jeff Chiu/AP)

Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence.

Meta’s updated privacy policy enables the company to feed people’s public posts into its AI systems. That practice will not be permitted in Brazil, however.