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Meta explicitly disclaims control over user information after it is transmitted to Third Party Services, shifting governance of that data entirely to external parties whose terms the user may not have reviewed.
Your information becomes subject to the rules of third-party services once transmitted, and Meta bears no stated responsibility for how those services handle it.
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