Threads — History
Change log of legal documents, generated whenever the source text changes.
Updated Terms of Service clarify Facebook terms layout and language without adding or removing substantive user rights, obligations, deletion timeframes, liability, or dispute venue.
Updated Meta’s Threads privacy policy to rephrase content and align terminology (e.g., cookie/AI/location/accounting sections) without adding or removing any substantive data-collection or rights terms.
Clarified that the content license you grant Meta applies specifically to “that content” for providing and improving services, and reaffirmed the same dispute and liability terms.
Privacy Policy now uses slightly revised wording around how it collects location and transactions data and refers to “social plugins/pixel” and research programmes, without changing core practices or user rights.
Updated Threads’ Privacy Policy wording for 2025 (e.g., cookie/AI/manual review sections), but no clear substantive changes to what Meta collects or how rights work.
Meta changed the terms to name Meta Platforms, Inc. as the contracting party, expand ad/data language, and move dispute resolution to California courts for non-consumer cases.
Threads Terms shift governance to Meta Platforms Ireland, add ad-free subscription and consumer-law dispute rules, and soften account-removal notice rights.
Meta changed the governing company, expanded advertising/data-use language, and added stronger U.S./California dispute forum rules for non-consumers.
Meta broadened ad and cross-account data use, added Accounts Centre and rights-management details, and clarified U.S. entity and partner-sharing language.
Threads updated its privacy policy with a new legal-basis section, clarified joint-controller processing with partners, and expanded account-centre and ad-use disclosures.
Meta expanded its privacy policy to cover more ad targeting, account linking, partner data use, and user rights management, while changing the covered entity to Meta Platforms, Inc.
Threads added a detailed legal-basis section, shifted account-centre and partner-processing disclosures, and expanded ad and data-use explanations.
Meta shifted the contract to Ireland, added ad-free subscription options, and changed dispute, liability, and account-termination terms.
Meta reorganized and expanded privacy explanations, especially around ads, Accounts Centre, partner sharing, and rights management, with some policy-controller and deletion wording changes.
Meta shifted the contract from Meta Platforms Ireland to Meta Platforms, Inc. and changed dispute resolution to California courts for most non-consumer claims.
Added a GDPR-style legal-basis section and expanded rights, while also broadening account-centre data combination, partner processing, and ad personalization disclosures.
Threads’ terms shift to Ireland-based contracting for users, add ad-free subscription language, expand content enforcement and notice rights, and change dispute resolution to Ireland for non-consumer claims.
Threads replaced a placeholder page with Meta’s full privacy policy, broadly expanding disclosed data collection, cross-company sharing, AI use, advertising, retention and law-enforcement sharing.
Threads replaced a placeholder/login page with Meta’s full Facebook Terms, adding broad content licenses, ad-personalization terms, account enforcement rules, and liability/dispute provisions.