Meta Faces More European Legal Hurdles Over AI Data Training

All Risk, No Reward: Meta's Ongoing Legal Issues in Europe Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 14, 2025

Social media giant Meta is likely to face more legal hurdles over its plans to use the personal data of European Facebook and Instagram users to train artificial intelligence models.

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Austrian rights group None of Your Business on Wednesday sent a cease and desist order to Meta after the California-based company announced last month it would resume feeding public posts and comments made by adult users into its training data set.

That violates the General Data Protection Regulation Act, NOYB asserted. German consumer group VZ NRW applied for a preliminary injunction against the company's plans.

Meta paused efforts to train AI with European data in June 2024 after ...