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The provision establishes Meta's authority to construct and maintain derived demographic and preference profiles through algorithmic inference rather than direct user declaration. This inferred data functions as operational input for audience segmentation, ad targeting, and content personalization systems.
The updated Privacy Policy no longer explicitly directs US residents to the United States Regional Privacy Notice, which previously provided details about consumer privacy rights available under state laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act and similar regulations. This removal does not eliminate those rights themselves, but it makes the Privacy Policy less clear about where consumers can find information on how to exercise those rights. Consumers can still locate the Regional Privacy Notice through Meta's website or by searching for it directly, but the removal reduces the accessibility and prominence of that guidance within the primary policy document.
View change record →Users operate under terms that authorize Meta to maintain inferred sensitive attribute profiles derived from behavioral signals and third-party data. These inferred attributes become available for use in ad targeting, content ranking, and other platform operations without separate consent mechanisms for specific inferred categories.
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We collect information about you when you shop in our stores, including through store cameras, loyalty programs, payment processing systems, and other in-store technologies. This information is used to improve store operations, loss prevention, and marketing.
We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined: Data from advertising technologies on and off our Services, like web beacons, pixels, ad ta...
We may de-identify or aggregate your personal information so that it can no longer reasonably identify you, and use such de-identified or aggregated data for any purpose, including sharing with third parties for research, analytics, and marketing purposes, without restriction.
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"We infer your interests based on your activity. For example, we make inferences about things like your age range, your interests, and your political views, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation based on what you do on and off Meta Products and information that you and others provide.— Excerpt from Meta Ads's Meta Privacy Policy
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The provision establishes Meta's authority to construct and maintain derived demographic and preference profiles through algorithmic inference rather than direct user declaration. This inferred data functions as operational input for audience segmentation, ad targeting, and content personalization systems.
Users operate under terms that authorize Meta to maintain inferred sensitive attribute profiles derived from behavioral signals and third-party data. These inferred attributes become available for use in ad targeting, content ranking, and other platform operations without separate consent mechanisms for specific inferred categories.
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