Meta Pauses Commercial Terms Update Amid Regulator Requests for Detail
TLDR
Meta has delayed its upcoming commercial terms of service update indefinitely after regulators asked for more detail on the changes.
What this Meta policy change means for your accounts
- Status
- Policy change
- Platform
- Meta
- Affects
- commercial terms of service
- Who
- Not specified in the source
- Effective
- Not specified in the source
- Action needed
- Not specified in the source
Meta has pushed back its upcoming commercial terms of service update indefinitely, and regulators have asked the company for more insight into the specifics of the change. Social Media Today reports the delay without giving a new timeline.
How we got here: earlier Meta coverage
On October 18, Meta revised its Terms of Service to remove language that had potentially created legal loopholes for data scraping. On October 23, Meta pushed back the effective date of its website-crawling terms by three weeks to November 20, and on October 25 it delayed updating its commercial services agreement while EU and UK regulators sought clarity on data-scraping practices. Later, on October 26, Meta pushed its updated business terms to November 20, with its permission to crawl sites tied to business users unchanged. Now, on November 2, Meta has delayed its upcoming commercial terms of service update indefinitely after regulators asked for more detail on the changes.
Summary of earlier coverage
- Oct 12Meta Offers Updated Guidance on Ad Placement Control
Meta released updated guidance on ad placement control options as it continues automating its ad display systems.