Meta pools your data from Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and other Meta-owned services into a single profile used primarily to target you with advertising.
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This means activity on one platform — such as a search you perform on Instagram — can influence ads you see on Facebook or third-party sites, and vice versa, creating a comprehensive behavioral profile without separate consent per platform.
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Your browsing, messaging, and purchasing behavior across all Meta platforms is merged into a single advertising profile by default, enabling highly granular targeting based on inferred interests, relationships, and behaviors you may not have knowingly shared.
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"We combine information about you from all these Facebook Products. We also combine it with information we receive from our business partners and other third parties. This helps us to show you ads and other relevant content and offer features and experiences across all our Products, and to improve them. We're also able to share information that's been collected through one Facebook Product with another Facebook Product, and use the data for broader purposes.— Excerpt from Meta Ads's Meta Privacy Policy
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates GDPR Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) (lawful basis for processing), Art. 9 (special categories), Art. 13 (transparency), and the EDPB's binding decisions of January 2023 finding Meta's reliance on contractual necessity for behavioral advertising unlawful. Also engages CCPA §1798.120 (right to opt out of sale/sharing) and CPRA §1798.100. Enforcement authority: Irish DPC (lead EU supervisory authority), EDPB, California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), FTC.
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This means activity on one platform — such as a search you perform on Instagram — can influence ads you see on Facebook or third-party sites, and vice versa, creating a comprehensive behavioral profile without separate consent per platform.
Your browsing, messaging, and purchasing behavior across all Meta platforms is merged into a single advertising profile by default, enabling highly granular targeting based on inferred interests, relationships, and behaviors you may not have knowingly shared.
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