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The private profile setting does not protect core identifying information, which remains publicly accessible regardless of that setting.
The updated privacy policy now explicitly states that your interactions with AI will be used to improve AI at Meta, and requires agreement to Meta's AI terms as a condition of service use. The policy reorganizes privacy disclosures into new sections covering data use, sharing, and management. You can review the updated AI terms and privacy sections before continuing to use Threads, though the policy does not describe an opt-out mechanism for AI interaction data use.
View change record →Setting your profile to private does not make your username, name, profile picture, or bio private — those remain public.
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Any such information that is meant to be shown to the public on our platform will be disclosed publicly. This Policy does not apply to the use of any such information by third parties after it is uploaded and displayed publicly on Kling AI.
Any content made public will be publicly accessible through the internet and may be crawled and indexed by search engines.
"whether your profile is private or public, your username, name, profile picture, and bio remain public.Excerpt from Threads's Privacy Policy
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The private profile setting does not protect core identifying information, which remains publicly accessible regardless of that setting.
Setting your profile to private does not make your username, name, profile picture, or bio private — those remain public.
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