The Irish Data Protection Authority still has open questions about the META IA tool that the technology giant began to overtake across Europe last week, a spokesperson for the private life watch.
“The DPC, as a main authority for Meta supervision, has examined Meta AI in recent months with our colleagues supervision authorities across the EU / EEE and we will keep it during the exam while it deploys users in the coming weeks,” said the spokesperson and we continue to engage: “However, in terms of Whatsapp, we still have open questions that And we continue to engage with WhatsApp on them. “
Metaai was presented In the United States in September 2023, followed by India in June 2024 and in the United Kingdom in October. It allows users to ask questions of a cat function on its Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Whatsapp platforms.
Meta’s plan to continue expansion in Europe was interrupted Last summer due to “regulatory unpredictability” and questions from Irish Privacy Authority surrounding the use of personal data from Facebook and Instagram adult users to form important language models (LLM).
“Mets Hasbeen entirely transparent with the Irish Data Protection Commission on the launch of Meta AI on our messaging services and we are convinced of our compliance with all data protection requirements,” the company said in a statement in Euronews.
Failure to comply with the Bloc data protection rules – General data protection regulations – could cause fines.
Platform rules
Certain aspects of Metaai also fall under the scope of the Digital Services Act (DSA), the rules of the European platform, which establishes standards in the areas of user safety and transparency.
A spokesman for the European Commission said Euronews last week that it awaits a risk assessment by Meta to check if the tool meets the DSA obligations.
The Commission said on Monday that it included dialogue with the company that “the first elements to be implemented are not relevant under the DSA”.
He will “continue to monitor” the deployment, added the spokesperson.