Beyond the text on a person owning intellectual property rights, Section 3 says nothing about privacy and data access considerations beyond the user’s privacy settings. Section 4.2 is literally the section this text is in, meaning it’s citing itself. Facebook’s current TOS states that you “retain ownership of the intellectual property rights in any such content that you create and share on Facebook and other Meta Company Products you use.” The current terms also state “If you delete or we disable or delete your account, these Terms shall terminate as an agreement between you and us, but the following provisions will remain in place: 3, 4.2-4.5.” If your state or country doesn’t have privacy laws, it’s unclear what rights you have. ![]() Others in that Reddit thread made the same claim, an example of the effect of disparate data privacy laws. Not living in the state didn’t matter, apparently: The poster from Reddit said they’d just used a random California street address in their complaint. I read a Reddit post that suggested that if Meta refused to provide your Instagram data to you, the best option was to fill out a consumer complaint in California with the Office of the Attorney General. Nothing was guaranteed to work except for virtually moving to the Mojave. Some have even attempted to buy back access to their data and accounts, purchasing ads on Facebook’s business platform to get access to a specialized chat support feature that’s specific for businesses. I eventually ended up on the unofficial Instagram subreddit where I found multiple posts from users there who have found themselves unable to log in and therefore unable to retrieve their data. I began looking online to find out more information about my situation, seeing if others had experienced the same response of being denied access to their own information.
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