Meta training data for AI
Dear European Data Protection Board,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
Any correspondence with Meta Platforms Inc. referring to the company's data protection practices and artificial intelligence products from May, 2024 through August, 2024. This documentation should include but not be limited to: general communications of any nature, written material of any kind, consultation notes, email correspondences, attendance lists, agendas, background papers, briefing papers, transcriptions of meetings, readouts of meetings, summaries of meetings, briefings for meetings, etc.
Yours faithfully,
Mark Bergen
Bloomberg News
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for your message and for your interest in data protection.
We will look into your request and get back to you within due time.
Kind regards,
The EDPB Secretariat
Dear correspondent,
We confirm registration of your access to documents request and registered
it today under reference 2024-24. Please use this reference for further
correspondence.
We are currently assessing your request and will provide you with a reply
within 15 working days (04/09/2024).
Please note that the EDPB specific privacy statement regarding the
processing of personal data for the purposes of handling requests for
access to documents is available on the EDPB website and can be viewed via
this link: [1]https://edpb.europa.eu/edpb-specific-pri....
Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
The EDPB Secretariat
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Dear correspondent,
Please find enclosed the reply to your request for access to documents
(ref. 2024-24) signed by Ms Irene Loizidou-Nicolaidou, Vice-Chair of the
EDPB.
We kindly ask to confirm receipt of this email.
Best regards,
The EDPB Secretariat
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Dear European Data Protection Board,
This is in regards to Ref No 2024-24. Many thanks for your response. I would like to make a confirmatory
application requesting the European Data Protection Board review its position on this request.
Is it possible to speak to an officer involved with the request to ensure that I'm phrasing my request correctly?
Yours sincerely,
Mark Bergen
Dear Applicant,
Following-up on your email from 4 September, please note that it is not
our practice to exchange via phone with applicants on such matters.
We understood you would like to make a confirmatory application and wonder
how to phrase it. Pursuant to Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, "Applications for access to a document shall be made in any
written form, including electronic form, in one of the languages referred
to in Article 314 of the EC Treaty and in a sufficiently precise manner to
enable the institution to identify the document. The applicant is not
obliged to state reasons for the application".
This being said, there is no other specific formality or "phrasing" to
initiate a confirmatory application, considering in particular the fact
that the EDPB did not find any document in scope of your initial
application. This could have been different if, for example, having found
documents in scope (quod non), we would have relied on one or several
exceptions from the Regulation to partly disclose or not disclose some
documents. If this were the case (quod non), legal arguments to challenge
the initial decision could have been useful (e.g. to demonstrate an
overriding public interest in disclosure).
Please also note that, according to EU case-law, when the institution
asserts that a document does not exist, it is presumed not to exist.
If your concern is actually more a matter of how we understood the scope
of your request, then we kindly invite you to make a new request, as the
scope of a request cannot be changed at the confirmatory stage. Should you
prefer this option, we would be grateful if you could be as specific as
possible, for instance by explaining what you think we misunderstood in
the first place.
Could you please confirm if we should proceed with this confirmatory
application or if you will send us a new request (via email or via Ask the
EU, both are fine)?
Best regards,
The EDPB Secretariat
Dear Applicant,
We are following-up on our previous email. Please note that your request
will be considered closed if no reply is received within 15 working days
from our email of 6 September (i.e. by 27 September). Of course, this does
not prevent you from making another request at any stage in the future.
Kind regards,
The EDPB Secretariat
From: European Data Protection Board <[EDPB request email]>
Sent: 06 September 2024 12:47
To: [FOI #14874 email]
Cc: European Data Protection Board <[EDPB request email]>
Subject: [AtD] Case 2024-24 - follow-up
Importance: High
Dear Applicant,
Following-up on your email from 4 September, please note that it is not
our practice to exchange via phone with applicants on such matters.
We understood you would like to make a confirmatory application and wonder
how to phrase it. Pursuant to Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, "Applications for access to a document shall be made in any
written form, including electronic form, in one of the languages referred
to in Article 314 of the EC Treaty and in a sufficiently precise manner to
enable the institution to identify the document. The applicant is not
obliged to state reasons for the application".
This being said, there is no other specific formality or "phrasing" to
initiate a confirmatory application, considering in particular the fact
that the EDPB did not find any document in scope of your initial
application. This could have been different if, for example, having found
documents in scope (quod non), we would have relied on one or several
exceptions from the Regulation to partly disclose or not disclose some
documents. If this were the case (quod non), legal arguments to challenge
the initial decision could have been useful (e.g. to demonstrate an
overriding public interest in disclosure).
Please also note that, according to EU case-law, when the institution
asserts that a document does not exist, it is presumed not to exist.
If your concern is actually more a matter of how we understood the scope
of your request, then we kindly invite you to make a new request, as the
scope of a request cannot be changed at the confirmatory stage. Should you
prefer this option, we would be grateful if you could be as specific as
possible, for instance by explaining what you think we misunderstood in
the first place.
Could you please confirm if we should proceed with this confirmatory
application or if you will send us a new request (via email or via Ask the
EU, both are fine)?
Best regards,
The EDPB Secretariat