SAO PAULO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Social media giant Meta

Platforms ( META ) will inform Brazilians how it intends to use

their personal data to train generative artificial intelligence

(AI), it said on Tuesday, following a demand from the country's

data protection watchdog.

Meta's users in Brazil will receive the warnings starting on

Tuesday by email and notifications on Facebook and Instagram,

and will be able to reject the use of their data by the firm to

train generative AI, it said in a statement.

Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) in July

suspended Meta's new privacy policy over the use of personal

data to train AI, but overturned this last Friday saying Meta

had agreed to issue the disclosures.

In July, Meta also actively suspended the use of generative

AI tools in Brazil, which included tools used to create popular

AI-made stickers for messaging platform WhatsApp. Brazil is

WhatsApp's second-largest customer base.

At the time, Meta said it had decided to suspend the tools

while it was in talks with ANPD to address the authority's

doubts over its use of generative AI.

Asked by Reuters on Tuesday if it would resume the tools

after ANPD lifted the suspension, Meta only reaffirmed that the

suspension had been issued while it was in talks with the ANPD.