Data Processing Options for US Users

Starting June 1, 2023, Limited Data Use for people in Colorado and Connecticut via Meta Business Tools and Meta Audience Network will be effective. Starting June 1, 2023, Limited Data Use for people in California via customer list custom audiences will also be effective. To give businesses time to prepare, Limited Data Use’s expanded features are available to explore as of May 1, 2023, but won’t go into effect until June 1, 2023. Please note that any Limited Data Use flag sent for these updated states and products prior to June 1, 2023, will not be implemented.

Limited Data Use is a data processing option that gives you more control over how your data is used in Meta’s systems and better supports your compliance efforts with various US state privacy regulations. To utilize this feature, you must proactively enable Limited Data Use. When Meta receives data with Limited Data Use enabled from people in the states where Limited Data Use applies, we will process that data in accordance with our role as a service provider or processor, as applicable, and limit the use of that data as specified in our State-Specific Terms.

For Business Tools and Audience Network, Limited Data Use is available only for people in California, Colorado or Connecticut. If a business enables Limited Data Use but does not set the location parameters to US and California, Colorado or Connecticut, we will determine if the event is from one of those states. If Limited Data Use is enabled for an event in California, Colorado or Connecticut, we will process data in accordance with our role as a service provider or processor and limit the use of that data in accordance with our State-Specific Terms.

Businesses may notice an impact to campaign performance and effectiveness, and retargeting and measurement capabilities will be limited when Limited Data Use is enabled.

Implementation

Graph API

To implement Data Processing Options using the Graph API, add data_processing_options, data_processing_options_country, and data_processing_options_state to your API call.

To explicitly not enable LDU, send an empty data_processing_options array:

{
  "event": "CUSTOM_APP_EVENTS",
  "application_tracking_enabled": "1",
  "advertiser_tracking_enabled": "1",
  "custom_events": ["fb_mobile_purchase"],
  "data_processing_options": []
}

To enable LDU and have Meta perform geolocation, you can send an event with the following code:

{
  "event": "CUSTOM_APP_EVENTS",
  "application_tracking_enabled": "1",
  "advertiser_tracking_enabled": "1",
  "custom_events": ["fb_mobile_purchase"],
  "data_processing_options": ["LDU"],
  "data_processing_options_country": 0,
  "data_processing_options_state": 0
}

To enable LDU and manually specify the location, e.g., for California, you can send an event with the following code:

  {
  "event": "CUSTOM_APP_EVENTS",
  "application_tracking_enabled": "1",
  "advertiser_tracking_enabled": "1",
  "custom_events": ["fb_mobile_purchase"],
  "data_processing_options": ["LDU"],
  "data_processing_options_country": 1,
  "data_processing_options_state": 1000
}

Mobile SDKs

We recommend using our latest versions to ensure the functionality of Data Processing Options. The below implementation instructions are accurate for the following SDK versions:

iOS Facebook SDK v7.1.1 or higher
Android Facebook SDK v7.1.0 or higher
Unity SDK v7.21.0 or higher

Please update if you are using any versions below the ones listed above.

As of July 1, 2023, we are ending the Transition Period for older versions of App Events via the Facebook SDK, whereby we applied Limited Data Use to all personal information shared about people in California. The ability to enable default Limited Data Use will no longer be available for any versions below iOS Facebook SDK v7.1.1, Android Facebook SDK v7.1.0 and Unity SDK v7.21.0. If you choose to use Limited Data Use for a person in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Texas, or Oregon on or after July 1, 2023, you must update your SDK and implement Data Processing Options as set forth in this document.

Implementation	Adding Data Processing Options
Facebook SDK for iOS v7.1.1+ (Objective-C)	With Objective-C, use `FBSDKSettings setDataProcessingOptions`. To explicitly not enable Limited Data Use (LDU), use: [FBSDKSettings setDataProcessingOptions:@[]]; To enable LDU and have Meta perform geolocation, use: [FBSDKSettings setDataProcessingOptions:@[@"LDU"] country:0 state:0]; To enable LDU and manually specify the location, e.g., for California, use: [FBSDKSettings setDataProcessingOptions:@[@"LDU"] country:1 state:1000];
Facebook SDK for iOS v7.1.1+ (Swift)	With Swift, use `setDataProcessingOptions`. To explicitly not enable LDU, use: Settings.setDataProcessingOptions(modes: []) To enable LDU and have Meta perform geolocation, use: Settings.setDataProcessingOptions(modes: ["LDU"], country: 0, state: 0) To enable LDU and manually specify the location, e.g., for California, use: Settings.setDataProcessingOptions(modes: ["LDU"], country: 1, state: 1000)
Facebook SDK for Android v7.1.0+	Use the `setDataProcessingOptions` method. To explicitly not enable LDU, use: FacebookSdk.setDataProcessingOptions(new String[] {}); To enable LDU and have Meta perform geolocation, use: FacebookSdk.setDataProcessingOptions(new String[] {"LDU"}, 0, 0); To enable LDU and manually specify the location, e.g., for California, use: FacebookSdk.setDataProcessingOptions(new String[] {"LDU"}, 1, 1000);
Unity SDK v7.21.1+	To explicitly not enable LDU, send an event with: FB.Mobile.SetDataProcessingOptions(new string[] {}); To enable LDU and have Meta perform geolocation, send an event with: FB.Mobile.SetDataProcessingOptions(new string[] {"LDU"}, 0, 0); To enable LDU and manually specify the location, e.g., for California, send an event with: FB.Mobile.SetDataProcessingOptions(new string[] {"LDU"}, 1, 1000);