Meta makes changes to comply with EU rules, the Digital Market Acts which will be in force from March.
Instagram and Facebook users in Europe will be given the choice to choose whether or not to share their information across its services.
Over the next few weeks, users will receive notifications informing them of the change.
The company announced the news on its blog.
“The DMA seeks to promote contestability and fairness in digital markets, an ambition supported by Meta. We are committed to continuing to work hard to ensure that Meta products in the EU are DMA compliant and deliver value to people: we have brought together a large cross-functional team of senior employees from around the world and across our family of apps to achieve it,” writes Tim Lamb, director of competition and regulation at Meta.
These changes will apply to the European Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
They mean that users in this area can use various Meta services without their information being interconnected.
For example, people can use Facebook Messenger independently without requiring a Facebook account.
Meta added that Instagram and Facebook users who have linked both accounts can choose to manage them separately and no longer share information between the two accounts.
Users can also choose whether to share information between their Facebook accounts and the platform's Gaming and Marketplace services.
Meta after Google is another technology big to make changes to comply with the DMA.
The new European regulation on digital markets aims to combat unfair market practices and distortions of competition by Big Tech.
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