At Meta, we are dedicated to building positive experiences for developers, businesses and the people they build for. As a part of this, we are committed to protecting people’s privacy and personal data - a responsibility that we share with all developers in our ecosystem. To support developers in this important work, we are announcing a series of...

As previously announced in October 2023, as part of Meta’s commitment to protecting people’s privacy, we update the Data Protection Assessment continuously in line with current privacy and security practices.This month (February 2024), we’ll be enhancing the Data Protection Assessment questionnaire by adding questions related to personnel security...

This week, we announced that Meta is formally partnering with Google and Microsoft as the founding steering committee of the newly restructured App Defense Alliance. The Alliance aims to raise the overall security posture of app ecosystems by leveraging industry standards for app security. With a member community spanning 17 General and Contributor...

At Meta we are committed to protecting people’s privacy and ensuring developers understand their responsibility to safeguard people’s data. As part of these efforts, we will be implementing several updates over the coming year. Starting in January, developers with apps that have gone live with use cases or with advanced access to any permission or ...

Today, we are announcing that we will be creating a path for developers of Instant Games (IG) on Facebook to launch their games directly to people on Facebook, even if the game is in the early stages of development and historically would have been blocked by the Quality Guidelines. We'll also change the way games are distributed across our organic...

As part of our commitment to protecting people’s privacy, we update the Data Protection Assessment continuously in line with current privacy and security practices.In January 2024, we’ll be enhancing the Data Protection Assessment questionnaire by adding questions related to personnel security practices, audit logging, and security monitoring....

This blog post was updated on May 17, 2023 at 1:30pm PST to reflect that this change does not impact personal Facebook accounts.This blog post was updated on May 5, 2023 at 11:45am PST to reflect that this change does not impact personal Facebook accounts....

We have updated Section 7 of the Developer Policies effective immediately. No change is required from the developers’ end, only awareness about these changes. As part of our continuous focus on improving developers’ experience, we have made some updates to the Section 7 of the Developer Policies which covers all Facebook Gaming Products, such as...

In recent years, Meta has developed a comprehensive approach to protecting elections on our technologies. These efforts continue in advance of the US 2022 Midterms, which you can read more about in our Newsroom. Implementing a restriction period for ads about social issues, elections or politics in the USConsistent with our approach during the US...