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Data protection authorities worldwide call for tighter controls on data scraping, AI training

( October 28, 2024, 14:51 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Data protection authorities from 16 jurisdictions called on social media companies in particular to protect against unlawful scraping via a combination of methods and ensure they follow local laws on data protection as well as contractual terms when scraping user content to train artificial intelligence models. The jurisdictions, including the UK, Australia, Canada and Hong Kong, belong to the Global Privacy Assembly which met in Jersey. The statement follows their call last year which set out social media companies’ responsibilities to protect user data from scraping.Statement follows:...

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