Meta Horizon

"We collect information about or related to: The position and orientation of your headset and controllers to determine body pose... Hand and body tracking... Eye tracking... Natural facial expressions... Wrist Devices include sensors to enable functionality, such as electromyography (EMG) sensors for processing electrical muscle signals (EMG signals)."

Meta collects an extraordinarily broad range of biometric and sensor data including eye tracking, facial expressions, hand/body movements, EMG muscle signals, and environmental room dimensions — far beyond what most users would expect from a consumer device.

"When location services are on, we only collect your child's headset location via Wi-Fi and IP signals to determine general location. Location-related information includes your general location or precise location that you choose and control through your mobile device settings."

Meta collects location data through Wi-Fi signals, IP addresses, and mobile device GPS, including precise location for geotagging, navigation, and contextual AI features on wearable products.

"If you use services from a third party, we share information about you with the third-party service so that it can provide you with the service that you've requested. For example, we share your Horizon Profile information with apps that you use... Avatar, Username, Profile name and picture, List of people that you follow and those who follow you... If you enable eye tracking or natural facial expressions in Meta Quest Pro, apps can access your abstracted gaze data or abstracted facial expressions data."

Meta shares extensive user data with third-party developers including profile information, social graphs, and even sensitive biometric data like eye tracking and facial expression data, subject only to those third parties' own policies.

"If you choose to add your Meta account to the same Accounts Centre as your other Meta Product accounts, please see here for details on how we use and share your information across accounts... We also use information from Meta VR Products to provide user-to-user communications and other social services across the Meta Products. This includes identifying and connecting you with your followers or people that you recently interacted with in an experience, through Meta VR Products."

Meta links user activity across VR headsets, smart glasses, wrist devices, Facebook, and Instagram through Accounts Centre, creating a unified profile spanning all Meta properties and device types.

"We've updated our Privacy Policy. The updates come into effect on 5 March 2026. Read the updated policy below. Read the previous policy. Effective from 5 March 2026."

Meta updates its privacy policy with a set effective date and no mechanism for explicit user consent — continued use of Meta products after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the new terms.

"If you submit a report, we'll use the attached recordings to investigate and fully resolve the report, and to help train our systems to better combat harmful behaviour, after which time, the recordings will be deleted. In some cases, we may need to retain the recordings for longer, where it is necessary in order to comply with applicable law."

While some retention periods are described for specific features, the policy lacks a comprehensive data retention schedule and includes broad exceptions allowing indefinite retention for legal compliance and system training purposes.