Policy Details & Nuances
Meta trains on public content (posts, comments, photos, audio) shared on Facebook and Instagram by default. Interactions with Meta AI features are also used for training. Information from partners, vendors, and third parties is also used.
EU/UK users can use the Right to Object form in the Privacy Center under GDPR. US and other non-EU users can set accounts to private to restrict training data, but there is no general opt-out setting in the privacy policy.
Retention Period
Retained on a case-by-case basis. Meta considers whether data is needed to operate products, the feature and how it works, legal obligations, and other legitimate purposes such as preventing harm or investigating violations.
Deletion on Request
YesUsers can delete information or their account through provided tools. However, public posts already used in model training cannot be recalled.
Shared across Meta platforms and with advertisers, analytics partners, integrated partners, measurement vendors, marketing vendors, service providers, external researchers, and AI integrations. Meta does not sell information to anyone.
Manual review conducted for safety, integrity, and security purposes: verifying accounts, finding policy violations, investigating suspicious activity, detecting and preventing harmful or unlawful behavior. Some decisions are reviewed by Oversight Board.
Context & Variations
EU and UK users have GDPR rights including right to object to AI training. US users can reference the United States Regional Privacy Notice. Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) are available in other jurisdictions.
Services are for users 13+. Meta does not knowingly target AI products directly at children under 13. Public posts from teen users may be collected if publicly shared.
Meta does not offer a hosted enterprise AI service with dedicated B2B privacy guarantees. Llama models run on third-party enterprise platforms under those platforms' terms.