How to protect your Facebook and Instagram posts from Meta-Ki-Diepresse.com
Today, Monday, May 26th to midnight ends the opportunity to prevent Meta from using your own contributions, postings and comments for the training of artificial intelligence. Instructions.
In order to be able to offer powerful artificial intelligence, it must be trained. So far, companies such as Openaai (Chatgpt), the Chinese provider Deepseek and Meta (Facebook, Instagram …) have been using the Internet. The latter now wants to access his largest data wealth: to the comments, postings and posts on Facebook and Instagram. Even WhatsApp conversations are not safe before access (with restrictions). Only private chat messages and the data of minors are excluded. But until midnight on May 26th can be contradicted. At least in theory.
Because so much is certain: Meta did not violate the privacy of its billions of users. With an objection, you have the opportunity to act against it in the event of an injury. And: Facebook has been available in Austria for 15 years. Many users have been registered on the platform for years and have written and commented on contributions accordingly. Those who do not contradict now have no chance to undo access.
To clarify: it is about public contributions. Those who have been restricted and posted as non-public are not used by AI for training.
What is used?
- Name, account name (if a pseudonym is used), profile images and avatars
- Activities in public groups, channels and public content
- Public contributions, photos including caps and publicly set videos
- News that are sent directly to the AI bot (WhatsApp)
Insert an objection – version I
Meta has created corresponding cancellation forms for Facebook and Instagram. It is best to fill it on the PC.
After calling the left, you have to use your user data register.
No reason is necessary.
Did it work? In the inbox (on which the Facebook account is registered), an email should appear immediately with the confirmation.
Objection – Version II
Directly via the app. The way there is relatively simple.
Select the settings in the app in the menu (the three strokes on top of each other). Then the privacy. Select settings again and then data protection directive. This menu item can then be found.
Objection – Version III
Legally, there are no specifications on how to look formally. Therefore, it is also possible to make an informal email. There is no explicit address for this.
General contact addresses (imprint):
- [email protected].obstaclecom for Facebook
- [email protected].obstaclecom for Instagram.
Content: In the email, the user account and the associated e-mail address should be listed and the announcement that the use of your own public content is contradicted for use for AI training
Attention: There will probably be no confirmation email here. Legally, however, it should definitely be binding if the submission dates are on May 26, 2025 before midnight.
