The terms place full legal compliance responsibility on developers, including obtaining any required user consents and providing applicable privacy notices, for all data processed through their applications using Meta's platform.
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This provision allocates primary legal and regulatory compliance responsibility to developers rather than to Meta, requiring developers to independently satisfy all applicable notice, consent, and data protection obligations under local law without reliance on Meta's own compliance infrastructure.
The updated terms establish new obligations for developers integrating Meta's AI models into their products. The agreement now requires developers to comply with applicable AI labeling, disclosure, provenance-marking, and system classification requirements under applicable law, with responsibility falling on the developer to implement these disclosures to end users. The expanded definition of Inputs now explicitly includes code, libraries, databases, and any content accessed through connectors or integrations, which may broaden what user-submitted content Meta claims the right to process for safety and security purposes.
View change record →The updated terms remove developer restrictions that previously applied to large-scale platforms, meaning companies with more than 700 million monthly active users can now access Meta's AI models without special permission. The terms also eliminate the restriction on EU developers accessing multimodal models and consolidate account management under either managed accounts or Meta accounts. Developers previously subject to these restrictions should review whether the updated terms now permit their use case.
View change record →The updated terms authorize Meta to retain user-submitted content if its systems flag the content for a potential policy violation, in addition to retention tied to legal compliance and contractual rights. This expands the circumstances under which content may be preserved without explicit time limits. Under the revised language, content retention decisions may now be driven by automated policy-violation flagging in addition to legal or contractual necessity. Developers integrating the Llama API should understand that flagged content may be retained indefinitely pending policy review.
View change record →This new provision expands developer legal liability to cover all applicable laws and regulations beyond just Meta's policies, creating broad compliance obligations.
View full change record →Under this clause, the responsibility for obtaining lawful consent and providing adequate privacy disclosures to users rests with the individual developer, meaning the quality and adequacy of privacy protections for users varies by application and is not uniformly guaranteed by Meta's own compliance mechanisms.
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"You are responsible for ensuring that your app complies with all applicable laws and regulations. You must also provide users with appropriate notice and obtain any necessary consent to use Platform Data.Excerpt from Meta's Llama API Terms of Service
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This provision allocates primary legal and regulatory compliance responsibility to developers rather than to Meta, requiring developers to independently satisfy all applicable notice, consent, and data protection obligations under local law without reliance on Meta's own compliance infrastructure.
Under this clause, the responsibility for obtaining lawful consent and providing adequate privacy disclosures to users rests with the individual developer, meaning the quality and adequacy of privacy protections for users varies by application and is not uniformly guaranteed by Meta's own compliance mechanisms.
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