AI Training Practices
Training on Personal Data
Yes
Training on User Interactions
Yes
Training on Public Content
Yes
AI Data Sharing
Yes
AI Use Cases
- Personalization — AI is used to personalize features, content, and recommendations, including feeds and ads.
- Content Processing — AI is used to understand and enable the creation of content like text, audio, images, and videos, and to process user interactions with AI.
- Recommendation — AI is used to make suggestions for people, groups, events, or topics users might be interested in.
- Moderation — Automated processing techniques are applied to find and address violations of terms or policies, investigate suspicious activity, and detect/prevent harmful behavior.
- Other — AI is developed and improved for Meta Products and for third parties, and research is conducted in AI and machine learning for social good.
Risk Assessment
Meta engages in extensive collection of personal and sensitive data across its ecosystem, which is then shared with numerous third parties for targeted advertising and personalization. The extremely low deterministic score (0/70) highlights significant underlying privacy issues, indicating a high risk to user privacy despite stated compliance with GDPR and CCPA. The absence of a direct privacy contact email further complicates user recourse.
Recommended Actions
- Thoroughly review and adjust your privacy settings within Facebook and other Meta products to limit data collection and ad personalization as much as possible.
- Be highly selective about the personal and sensitive information you share on Meta platforms, as it contributes to your extensive data profile.
- Consider using privacy-focused browser extensions or alternative services to reduce tracking across the web and minimize your digital footprint.
- Exercise your data rights (e.g., access, deletion) through Meta's provided data request form, but be prepared for a potentially complex process.
AI Overview
Trains on user dataYes
Trains on interactionsYes
Opt-out availableNo
AI disclosureYes
Third-party AINo
AI Products Detected
AI at MetaDetected
AI Training Opt-Out
Opt-out availability is unclear.