Latest
  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool
  2. China’s AI compute access expected to double in 2027, with US-designed chips about 65 per cent
  3. UK commits £100m to national AI Biosecurity Lab
  4. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  5. Residents in Newport and Cardiff oppose hyperscale datacentres near homes
  6. Study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans in 92% of forced midterm answers, GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%
  7. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  8. Elvis Presley’s rightsholders sue Anthropic over training on 274 songs

Latest / Media, elections and online safety

Enforcement or court caseMediaFrontierBrazilReported

Brazil’s data authority orders Meta to stop using users’ data to train AI

See how this story connects

Source: Mobile TimeAlso reported by Teletime, CNN Brasil

Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published a preventive measure on 2 July 2024 suspending Meta’s new privacy policy, which allowed public posts on Facebook and Instagram to be used to train Meta’s AI models. The ANPD cited an imminent risk of serious and irreparable harm to users’ rights, gave Meta five working days to comply and set a daily fine of R$50,000 for non-compliance. Meta said it was disappointed and that its approach complied with Brazilian law.

Why it matters

AI developers in Brazil learned that the data protection authority will act before training starts on user posts, and that public social media data still falls under the LGPD.

When
2 Jul 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0176
Where
Brazil
Who
ANPD, Meta
Authority
Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados
Target
Meta
Action
preventive suspension; R$50,000 a day (daily)
Status
closed · Enforcement ledger

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Mobile Time and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Mobile Time

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Cite this story

WTA-N-2024-0176: “Brazil’s data authority orders Meta to stop using users’ data to train AI.” wheresthe.ai, 2 Jul 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/br-anpd-suspends-meta-ai-training-2024-07/ (source: Mobile Time).

Spotted an error? Email [email protected].