If you’ve posted publicly on Facebook or Instagram at any time since 2007, your data may be scraped by parent company Meta to use in its artificial intelligence models, Meta global privacy director Melinda Claybaugh acknowledged during a hearing in Australia this week. 

Claybaugh initially rejected the claims that the data was leveraged for AI training, reports Australia’s ABC News.

“The truth of the matter is that unless you have consciously set those posts to private since 2007, Meta has just decided that you will scrape all of the photos and all of the texts from every public post on Instagram or Facebook since 2007 unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private,” Australian Green Party Sen. David Shoebridge asked her during the hearing. “That’s the reality, isn’t it?”

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