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Policy Rationale
Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about themselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
We do not allow:
Content that shares or asks for private information, either on our services or through external links, as follows:
Personally identifiable information (PII)
  • Content sharing Personally Identifiable Information (information that uniquely identifies an individual) of the poster or others. This includes:
    • National identification numbers such as social security numbers (SSN), passport numbers or individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITIN).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military or security personnel.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information such as marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition documents
    • Immigration and work status documents such as green cards, work permits or visas
  • Content asking for Personally Identifiable Information of others
Personal Contact Information
  • Content sharing personal contact information of others, except when made public by the individual or when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact a business or service provider (unless it is established that the personal contact information is shared without the consent of the individual).
Residential information
Content sharing information that makes a residence reasonably identifiable, such as:
  • Content sharing full private residential addresses of others, including building name or pins on a map identifying the address (even if the information is in an off-platform link), except in the following contexts:
    • when shared to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact a business or service providers
    • when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official
  • Content sharing partial private residential addresses of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official):
    • When shared in the context of organizing protests or surveillance of the resident and the location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
    • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
    • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number/building name is identified in the image/caption.
    • The location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
    • The content identifies the resident(s).
    • Either that resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident.
    • The imagery of the residence is not being shared because the residence is the focus of a news story (except when shared in the context of organizing protests against the resident)
Content asking for the following information:
  • Content asking for private residential information of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official)
  • Content asking for location of safe houses or exposing information about safe houses by sharing any of the below (except when the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility)
    • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed)
    • Images of the safe house
    • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house
    • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents
Medical information
  • Content sharing or asking for medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic/hereditary information of others (including when displayed visually or shared through audio or video),when it is clear that the information comes from medical records or other official documents.
Financial information
  • Content sharing or asking for personal financial information about the poster or others, defined as information about a person’s individual finances including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements.
    • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
    • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
  • Content sharing or asking for non-public financial information of a business or organization, defined as information about a business’ or organization’s finances, except when originally shared by the organization itself (including subsequent shares with the original context intact) or shared through public reporting requirements (for example as required by stock exchanges or regulatory agencies), including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements
    • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
Information obtained from hacked sources
  • Content claimed by the poster or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • Depictions of Individuals & Medical Facilities, defined as content that displays an individual in a medical or health facility or a private individual or minor entering or exiting a medical or health facility, and is reported by:
    • The person in the image
    • A representative of the person in the image
    • The medical or health facility with care responsibilities for the person in the image, or
    • The medical or health facility that employs the person in the image
  • Source material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.
    • We remove reporting on such a leak by state-controlled media entities from the country behind the leak.
Policy Rationale
Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about themselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
We do not allow:
Content that shares or asks for private information, either on our services or through external links, as follows:
Personally identifiable information (PII)
  • Content sharing Personally Identifiable Information (information that uniquely identifies an individual) of the poster or others. This includes:
    • National identification numbers such as social security numbers (SSN), passport numbers or individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITIN).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military or security personnel.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information such as marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition documents
    • Immigration and work status documents such as green cards, work permits or visas
  • Content asking for Personally Identifiable Information of others
Personal Contact Information
  • Content sharing personal contact information of others, except when made public by the individual or when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact a business or service provider (unless it is established that the personal contact information is shared without the consent of the individual).
Residential information
Content sharing information that makes a residence reasonably identifiable, such as:
  • Content sharing full private residential addresses of others, including building name or pins on a map identifying the address (even if the pins areinformation is in an off-platform link), except in the following contexts:
    • when shared to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact a business or service providers
    • when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official
  • Content sharing partial private residential addresses of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official):
    • When shared in the context of organizing protests or surveillance of the resident and the location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
    • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
    • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number/building name is identified in the image/caption.
    • The location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
    • The content identifies the resident(s).
    • Either that resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident.
    • The imagery of the residence is not being shared because the residence is the focus of a news story (except when shared in the context of organizing protests against the resident)
Content asking for the following information:
  • Content asking for private residential information of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official)
  • Content asking for location of safe houses or exposinges information about safe houses by sharing any of the below (except when the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility)
    • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed)
    • Images of the safe house
    • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house
    • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents
Medical information
  • Content sharing or asking for medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic/hereditary information of others (including when displayed visually or shared through audio or video),when it is clear that the information comes from medical records or other official documents.
Financial information
  • Content sharing or asking for personal financial information about the poster or others, defined as information about a person’s individual finances including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements.
    • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
    • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
  • Content sharing or asking for non-public financial information of a business or organization, defined as information about a business’ or organization’s finances, except when originally shared by the organization itself (including subsequent shares with the original context intact) or shared through public reporting requirements (for example as required by stock exchanges or regulatory agencies), including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements
    • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
Information obtained from hacked sources
  • Content claimed by the poster or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • Depictions of Individuals & Medical Facilities, defined as content that displays an individual in a medical or health facility or a private individual or minor entering or exiting a medical or health facility, and is reported by:
    • The person in the image
    • A representative of the person in the image
    • The medical or health facility with care responsibilities for the person in the image, or
    • The medical or health facility that employs the person in the image
  • Source material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.
    • We remove reporting on such a leak by state-controlled media entities from the country behind the leak.
Policy Rationale
Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about themselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
We do not allow:
Content that shares or asks for private information, either on Facebookour services or through external links, as follows:
Personally identifiable information (PII)
  • Content sharing Personally Identifiable Information (information that uniquely identifies an individual) of the poster or others. This includes:
    • National identification numbers such as social security numbers (SSN), passport numbers or individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITIN).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military or security personnel.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information such as marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition documents
    • Immigration and work status documents such as green cards, work permits or visas
  • Content asking for Personally Identifiable Information of others
Personal Contact Information
  • Content sharing personal contact information of others, except when made public by the individual or when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact a business or service provider (unless it is established that the personal contact information is shared without the consent of the individual).
Residential information
  • Content sharing full private residential addresses of others, including building name or pins on a map identifying the address (even if the pins are in an off-platform link), except in the following contexts:
    • when shared to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact a business or service providers
    • when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official
  • Content sharing partial private residential addresses of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official):
    • When shared in the context of organizing protests or surveillance of the resident and the location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
  • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
    • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number/building name is identified in the image/caption.
    • The location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
    • The content identifies the resident(s).
    • Either that resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident.
    • The imagery of the residence is not being shared because the residence is the focus of a news story (except when shared in the context of organizing protests against the resident)
  • Content asking for private residential information of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official)
  • Content asking for location of safe houses or exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below (except when the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility)
    • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed)
    • Images of the safe house
    • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house
    • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents
Medical information
  • Content sharing or asking for medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic/hereditary information of others (including when displayed visually or shared through audio or video),when it is clear that the information comes from medical records or other official documents.
Financial information.
  • Content sharing or asking for personal financial information about the poster or others, defined as information about a person’s individual finances including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements.
    • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
    • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
  • Content sharing or asking for non-public financial information of a business or organization, defined as information about a business’ or organization’s finances, except when originally shared by the organization itself (including subsequent shares with the original context intact) or shared through public reporting requirements (for example as required by stock exchanges or regulatory agencies), including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements
    • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
Information obtained from hacked sources
  • Content claimed by the poster or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • Depictions of Individuals & Medical Facilities, defined as content that displays an individual in a medical or health facility or a private individual or minor entering or exiting a medical or health facility, and is reported by:
    • The person in the image
    • A representative of the person in the image
    • The medical or health facility with care responsibilities for the person in the image, or
    • The medical or health facility that employs the person in the image
  • Source material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.
    • We remove reporting on such a leak by state-controlled media entities from the country behind the leak.
Policy Rationale
Privacy and the protection of personal information are fundamentally important values for Facebook. Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about yourselfthemselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We also recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
We also provide people ways to report imagery that they believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
We do not allow :Do not post:
Content that shares or solicitsasks forany of the following private information, either on Facebook or through external links, as follows:
Personally identifiable information (PII)about yourself or others
  • Content sharing Personally Identifiable Information (information that uniquely identifies an individual) of the poster or others. This includes:
    • National identification numbers such as social security numbers (SSN), passport numbers or individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITIN).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military or security personnel.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information such as marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition documents
    • Immigration and work status documents such as green cards, work permits or visas
  • Content asking for Personally Identifiable Information of others
  • Personal identification numbers and identity documents: identifying individuals by name and government-issued numbers, including:
    • National identification numbers (for example Social Security Numbers (SSN), Passport Numbers, National Insurance/Health Service Numbers, Personal Public Service Numbers (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN)).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (for example, marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition documents, except student IDs)
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers)
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates, except when license plates are shared to facilitate finding missing vehicles, people or animals
    • Credit Privacy Numbers (CPNs)
  • Digital identity: Passwords, pins or codes (such as passwords of email addresses, social media accounts and accounts of streaming services) that authenticate access to an online identity
Personal Contact Information
  • Content sharing personal contact information of others, including personal phone numbers and personal email addresses (including work email addresses), except when made public by the individual or when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes; facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects; or contact a business or service providers (unless it is established that the personal contact information is shared without the consent of the individual).
Residential information
  • Private residential addresses of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official):
  • Content sharingFullfull private residential addresses of others, including building name, GPS pins or pins on a map identifying the address (even if the pins are in an off-platform link), except in the following contexts:
    • when shared to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact a business or service providers
    • when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official
  • Content sharing partial private residential addresses of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official):
    • Partial private residential addresses of others wWhen shared in the context of organizing protests or surveillance of the resident and the location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
  • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
    • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number/building name is identified in the image/caption.
    • The location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
    • The content identifies the resident(s).
    • Either that resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident.
    • The imagery of the residence is not being shared because the residence is the focus of a news story (except when shared in the context of organizing protests against the resident)
  • Content asking for private residential information of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official)
  • Content asking for location of safe houses: content that exposesor exposinges information about safe houses by sharing any of the below,(except when the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility)
    • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed)
    • Images of the safe house
    • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house
    • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents
Medical information
  • Content sharing or asking for medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic/hereditary information of others (including when displayed visually or shared through audio or video),when it is clear that the information comes from medical records or other official documents, including when displayed visually or shared through audio or video.
Financial information.
  • Content sharing or asking for personal financial information about the posteryourself or others,, defined as information about a person’s individual finances, including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements.
    • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
    • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
  • Content sharing or asking for non-public financial information abouta businesses or organizations, defined as information about a business’ or organization’s finances,except when originally shared by the organization itself (including subsequent shares with the original context intact) or shared through public reporting requirements (for example as required by stock exchanges or regulatory agencies), including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements
    • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
Information obtained from hacked sources
  • Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, cContent claimed by the posteror confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Depictions of Individuals & Medical Facilities, defined as content that displaysDepictions ofan individual in a medical or health facility or a private individual or minor entering or exiting a medical or health facility, and is reported byif reported by the person pictured or an authorized representative, or the medical or health facility. :
    • The person in the image
    • A representative of the person in the image
    • The medical or health facility with care responsibilities for the person in the image, or
    • The medical or health facility that employs the person in the image
  • Source material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.
    • We remove reporting on such a leak by state-controlled media entities from the country behind the leak.
Privacy and the protection of personal information are fundamentally important values for Facebook. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about yourself or of others.
We remove content that shares, offers or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We also recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We also provide people ways to report imagery that they believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
Do not post:
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on Facebook or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
  • Personal identification numbers identity documents: identifying individuals throughby name and government-issued numbers, including:
    • National identification numbers (for example Social Security Number (SSN), Passport Numbers, National Insurance/Health Service Numbers, Personal Public Service Numbers (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN)).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (for example, marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition documents, except student IDs)
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers)
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates, except when license plates are shared to facilitate finding missing vehicles, people or animals
    • Credit Privacy Numbers (CPNs)
  • Personal information: directly identifying an individual, by indicating the ID number or registration information and the individual’s name.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition, and so on).
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers).
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates, except when license plates are shared to facilitate finding missing people or animals.
    • Credit Privacy Number (CPN).
  • Digital identity: Passwords, pins or codes (such as passwords of email addresses, social media accounts and accounts of streaming services) that authenticateing access to an online identity
    • Email addresses with passwords.
    • Digital identities with passwords.
    • Passwords, pins or codes to access private information.
Other private information
Personal Contact Information
  • Personal contact information of others,suchincludingaspersonal phone numbers, addresses and personal email addresses (including work email addresses), except when made public by the individual or whenexcept when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, facilitatingfinding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact business or service providers (unless it is established that the personal contact information is shared without the consent of the individual).
Financial information
  • Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
    • Non-public financial records or statements.
    • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
    • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
  • Financial information about businesses or organizations, unlessexcept when originally shared by the organization itself, (including subsequent shares with the original context intact) or shared through public reporting requirements (for example as required by stock exchanges or regulatory agencies), including:
    • FNon-public financial records or statements except when the financial records of the business are publicly available (for example, listed on stock exchanges or regulatory agencies, and so on)
    • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
    • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
Residential information
  • Private residential addresses of others (except when the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a high-ranking public official):
    • Full private residential addresses of others, including building name, GPS pins or pins on a map identifying the address (even if the pins are in an off-platform link), except when shared to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people, animals, or owners of missing objects, or contact a business or service providers
      • Partial private residential addresses of others:
        • Partial private residential addresses of others when shared in the context of organizing protests or surveillance of the resident and the location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
        • Street
        • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
        • Postal code
        • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
    • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
    • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number/building name is identified in the image/caption.
    • The city/neighborhood or GPS pin (for example, a pin from Google Maps) are identified.
    • The location of the residence is identified by any one of the following:
      • Street
      • City or neighborhood (only for cities with fewer than 50,000 residents)
      • Postal code
      • GPS pins or pins on a map identifying any of these (even if the pins are in an off-platform link)
    • The content identifies the resident(s).
    • Either tThat same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident (This does not include embassies that also serve as residences).
    • The imagery of the residence is not being shared because the residence is the focus of a news story except when shared in the context of organizing protests against the resident
  • Location of safe houses:Ccontent that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unlessexcept when the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility
    • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed.)
    • Images of the safe house.
    • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house.
    • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents.
Medical information
  • Records or official documentation displayingContent sharing medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic hereditary information of others when it is clear that the information comes from medical records or other official documents, including when displayed visually or shared through audio or video.
Information obtained from hacked sources
  • Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Depictions of someone in a medical or health facilityan individual in a medical or health facility or a private individual or minor entering or exiting a medical or health facility if reported by the person pictured or an authorized representative, or the medical or health facility..
  • Source material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.
    • We remove reporting on such a leak by state-controlled media entities from the country behind the leak.
In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
Policy Rationale
Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about themselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
Do not post:
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on Facebook or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
  • Personal identity: identifying individuals through government-issued numbers.
    • National identification number (for example Social Security Number (SSN), Passport Number, National Insurance/Health Service Number, Personal Public Service Number (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
  • Personal information: directly identifying an individual, by indicating the ID number or registration information and the individual’s name.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition, and so on).
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers).
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates, except when license plates are shared to facilitate finding missing people or animals.
    • Credit Privacy Number (CPN).
  • Digital identity: authenticating access to an online identity
    • Email addresses with passwords.
    • Digital identities with passwords.
    • Passwords, pins or codes to access private information.
Other private information
  • Personal contact information of others such as phone numbers, addresses and email addresses, except when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, find missing people, animals, or objects, or contact business service providers.
  • Financial information.
    • Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
      • Non-public financial records or statements.
      • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
      • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
    • Financial information about businesses or organizations, unless originally shared by the organization itself, including:
      • Financial records or statements except when the financial records of the business are publicly available (for example, listed on stock exchanges or regulatory agencies, and so on)
      • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
  • Residential information
    • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
      • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number is identified in the image/caption.
      • The city/neighborhood or GPS pin (for example, a pin from Google Maps) are identified.
      • The content identifies the resident(s).
      • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident (This does not include embassies that also serve as residences).
    • Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility
      • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed.)
      • Images of the safe house.
      • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house.
      • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents.
  • Medical information
    • Records or official documentation displaying medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic hereditary of others.
  • Information obtained from hacked sources.
    • Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Depictions of someone in a medical or health facility if reported by the person pictured or an authorized representative.
  • Source material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.
    • We remove reporting on such a leak by state-controlled media entities from the country behind the leak.
In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
The policy has been updated to clarify that when there is additional context to enforce, we remove source material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation and reporting on such a leak by state-controlled media entities from the country behind the leak.
Policy Rationale
Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about themselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
Do not post:
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on Facebook or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
  • Personal identity: identifying individuals through government-issued numbers.
    • National identification number (for example Social Security Number (SSN), Passport Number, National Insurance/Health Service Number, Personal Public Service Number (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
  • Personal information: directly identifying an individual, by indicating the ID number or registration information and the individual’s name.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition, and so on).
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers).
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates, except when license plates are shared to facilitate finding missing people or animals.
    • Credit Privacy Number (CPN).
  • Digital identity: authenticating access to an online identity
    • Email addresses with passwords.
    • Digital identities with passwords.
    • Passwords, pins or codes to access private information.
Other private information
  • Personal contact information of others such as phone numbers, addresses and email addresses, except when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, find missing people, animals, or objects, or contact business service providers.
  • Financial information.
    • Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
      • Non-public financial records or statements.
      • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
      • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
    • Financial information about businesses or organizations, unless originally shared by the organization itself, including:
      • Financial records or statements except when the financial records of the business are publicly available (for example, listed on stock exchanges or regulatory agencies, and so on)
      • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
  • Residential information
    • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
      • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number is identified in the image/caption.
      • The city/neighborhood or GPS pin (for example, a pin from Google Maps) are identified.
      • The content identifies the resident(s).
      • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident (This does not include embassies that also serve as residences).
    • Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility
      • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed.)
      • Images of the safe house.
      • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house.
      • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents.
  • Medical information
    • Records or official documentation displaying medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic hereditary of others.
  • Information obtained from hacked sources.
    • Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts a defector at risk by outing the individual with personally identifiable information when the content is reported by credible government channels.
  • Depictions of someone in a medical or health facility if reported by the person pictured or an authorized representative.
In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
Policy language about outing individuals has been consolidated in the Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime policy and moved from the Privacy Violations policy.
Policy Rationale
Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about themselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
Do not post:
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on Facebook or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
  • Personal identity: identifying individuals through government-issued numbers.
    • National identification number (for example Social Security Number (SSN), Passport Number, National Insurance/Health Service Number, Personal Public Service Number (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
  • Personal information: directly identifying an individual, by indicating the ID number or registration information and the individual’s name.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition, and so on).
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers).
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates, except when license plates are shared to facilitate finding missing people or animals.
    • Credit Privacy Number (CPN).
  • Digital identity: authenticating access to an online identity
    • Email addresses with passwords.
    • Digital identities with passwords.
    • Passwords, pins or codes to access private information.
Other private information
  • Personal contact information of others such as phone numbers, addresses and email addresses, except when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, find missing people, animals, or objects, or contact business service providers.
  • Financial information.
    • Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
      • Non-public financial records or statements.
      • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
      • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
    • Financial information about businesses or organizations, unless originally shared by the organization itself, including:
      • Financial records or statements except when the financial records of the business are publicly available (for example, listed on stock exchanges or regulatory agencies, and so on)
      • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
  • Residential information
    • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
      • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number is identified in the image/caption.
      • The city/neighborhood or GPS pin (for example, a pin from Google Maps) are identified.
      • The content identifies the resident(s).
      • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident (This does not include embassies that also serve as residences).
    • Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility
      • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed.)
      • Images of the safe house.
      • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house.
      • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents.
  • Medical information
    • Records or official documentation displaying medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic hereditary of others.
  • Information obtained from hacked sources.
    • Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
  • Status or occupation related information.
    • Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel if:
      • The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status.
      • The imagery identifies the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts a defector at risk by outing the individual with personally identifiable information when the content is reported by credible government channels.
  • Depictions of someone in a medical or health facility if reported by the person pictured or an authorized representative.
In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
Policy language about outing individuals is being consolidated in the Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime policy so this language has been moved there.
Policy Rationale
Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about themselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
Do not post:
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on Facebook or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
  • Personal identity: identifying individuals through government-issued numbers.
    • National identification number (for example Social Security Number (SSN), Passport Number, National Insurance/Health Service Number, Personal Public Service Number (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
  • Personal information: directly identifying an individual, by indicating the ID number or registration information and the individual’s name.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition, and so on).
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers).
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates, except when license plates are shared to facilitate finding missing people or animals.
    • Credit Privacy Number (CPN).
Other private information
  • Digital identity: authenticating access to an online identity
    • Email addresses with passwords.
    • Digital identities with passwords.
    • Passwords, pins or codes to access private information.
  • Personal contact information of others such as phone numbers, addresses and email addresses, except when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, find missing people, animals, or objects, or contact business service providers.
  • Financial information.
    • Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
      • Non-public financial records or statements.
      • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
      • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
    • Financial information about businesses or organizations, unless originally shared by the organization itself, including:
      • Financial records or statements except when the financial records of the business are publicly available (for example, listed on stock exchanges or regulatory agencies, and so on)
      • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
  • Residential information
    • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
      • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number is identified in the image/caption.
      • The city/neighborhood or GPS pin (for example, a pin from Google Maps) are identified.
      • The content identifies the resident(s).
      • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident (This does not include embassies that also serve as residences).
    • Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility
      • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed.)
      • Images of the safe house.
      • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house.
      • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents.
  • Medical information
    • Records or official documentation displaying medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic hereditary of others.
  • Information obtained from hacked sources.
    • Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
  • Status or occupation related information.
    • Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel if:
      • The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status.
      • The imagery identifies the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts a defector at risk by outing the individual with personally identifiable information when the content is reported by credible government channels.
  • Depictions of someone in a medical or health facility if reported by the person pictured or an authorized representative.
In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
As part of our response to an Oversight Board decision, we are updating our context-specific policy to clarify that in certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
In addition, the policy title has been updated to clarify that the primary focus is Privacy Violations.
Finally, the policy rationale has been updated to clarify that the sharing of license plates in connection with a person’s name to facilitate finding missing people or animals is allowed.
Policy Rationale
Our services aim to protect the privacy and personal information of our users. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about themselves or of others. We also provide people ways to report imagery that people believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources. We recognize that private information may become publicly available through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When that happens, we may allow the information to be posted.
We have additional restrictions for paid content. Although we allow ads that provide a positive user experience by focusing on the product’s or service’s details, we remove ads that exploit users’ personal hardships, appear to make negative or inaccurate characterizations about them, or imply knowledge of sensitive personal information. For more information on our privacy rules for paid content, see our Advertising Standard on Privacy Violations and Personal Attributes.
Do not post:
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on Facebook or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
  • Personal identity: identifying individuals through government-issued numbers.
    • National identification number (for example Social Security Number (SSN), Passport Number, National Insurance/Health Service Number, Personal Public Service Number (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)).
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
  • Personal information: directly identifying an individual, by indicating the ID number or registration information and the individual’s name.
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition, and so on).
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers).
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates.
    • Credit Privacy Number (CPN).
  • Digital identity: authenticating access to an online identity
    • Email addresses with passwords.
    • Digital identities with passwords.
    • Passwords, pins or codes to access private information.
Other private information
  • Personal contact information of others such as phone numbers, addresses and email addresses , except when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, find missing people, animals, or objects, or contact business service providers.
  • Financial information.
    • Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
      • Non-public financial records or statements.
      • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
      • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
    • Financial information about businesses or organizations,unless originally shared by the organization itself, including:
      • Financial records or statements except when the financial records of the business are publicly available (for example, listed on stock exchanges or regulatory agencies, and so on)
      • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
      • Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
  • Residential information
    • Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
      • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number is identified in the image/caption.
      • The city/neighborhood or GPS pin (for example, a pin from Google Maps) are identified.
      • The content identifies the resident(s).
      • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident (This does not include embassies that also serve as residences).
    • Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility
      • Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed.)
      • Images of the safe house.
      • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house.
      • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents.
  • Medical information
    • Records or official documentation displaying medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic hereditary of others.
  • Information obtained from hacked sources.
    • Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
  • Status or occupation related information.
    • Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel if:
      • The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status.
      • The imagery identifies the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status.
The following content also may be removed:
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
    • A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts a defector at risk by outing the individual with personally identifiable information when the content is reported by credible government channels.
  • Depictions of someone in a medical or health facility if reported by the person pictured or an authorized representative.
These edits do not reflect policy changes, rather additions to the Community Standards for transparency and to better reflect our enforcement.
Policy Rationale
Privacy and the protection of personal information are fundamentally important values for Facebook. We work hard to keep your account secure and safeguard your personal information in order to protect you from potential physical or financial harm. You should not post personal or confidential information about others without first getting their consent. We also provide people ways to report imagery that they believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
Privacy and the protection of personal information are fundamentally important values for Facebook. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post personal or confidential information about yourself or of others.
We remove content that shares, offers or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources.
We also provide people ways to report imagery that they believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
Do not post:
Content that facilitates identity theft by posting or soliciting personally identifiable information, including (but not limited to)
  • National identification numbers, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, or exam numbers
  • Government IDs
  • School and education IDs featuring two of the following: (1) name, (2) photo, or (3) ID number
  • Digital identities, including passwords
Content that contains medical/psychological, biometric, or genetic records or official documentation of others
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing personally identifiable information via an external link
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing private financial information of an organization or business
Content that facilitates identity theft by disclosing the following personal financial information (of either the self or others)
  • Bank account and/or card information
  • Financial records paired with account information
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing the private contact information of others defined as
  • Private phone numbers or addresses
  • Email, Messenger, and chat identities
  • The above information may be shared to promote charitable causes, non-violating services, or to facilitate finding missing people or animals
Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
Content that identifies individuals by name and depicts their personal information, including:
  • Driver’s licenses, Government IDs other than driver’s licenses, Green Cards, or immigration papers
  • Marriage, birth, and name change certificates
  • Digital identities, including passwords
  • License plates
Content that includes photographs that display the external view of private residences if the following conditions apply:
  • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident’s unit number is identified in the image/caption
  • The city or neighborhood is identified
  • A resident is mentioned or depicted
  • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence
Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement personnel if
  • The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status, or
  • The content contains images identifying the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status
Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting its location, contact information, or the type of service and protection it offers through comments, posts, Pages or Groups:
  • Actual address of the safe house (post box only is allowed),
  • Images of the safe house,
  • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house, or
  • Information outing residents of the safe house
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on Facebook or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
  • Personal identity: identifying individuals through government-issued numbers
    • National identification number (for example Social Security Numbers (SSN), Passport Number, National Insurance/Health Service Number, Personal Public Service Number (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs))
    • Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel
  • Personal information: directly identifying an individual, by indicating the ID number or registration information and the individual’s name
    • Records or official documentation of civil registry information (marriage, birth, death, or name change, gender recognition, and so on)
    • Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers)
    • Driver’s licenses or license plates
    • Credit Privacy Number (CPN)
  • Digital identity: authenticating access to an online identity
    • Email addresses with passwords
    • Digital identities with passwords
    • Passwords, pins, or codes to access private information
  • Personal contact information of others such as phone numbers, addresses and email addresses
Other Private Information
  • Financial information
    • Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
      • Non-public financial records or statements
      • Bank account numbers with security or pin codes
      • Digital payment method information with log-in details, security or pin codes
      • Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes
    • Financial information about businesses or organizations, including:
      • Financial records or statements except when the financial records of the business are publicly available (for example listed on stock exchanges, regulatory agencies, and so on)
      • Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes
      • Digital payment method information accompanied by log-in details, security or pin codes
  • Residential information
    • Imagery that display the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
      • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number is identified in the image/caption
      • The city/neighborhood or GPS pins (for example, a pin from Google Maps) are identified
      • The content identifies the resident(s)
      • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence or there is context of organizing protests against the resident (this does not include embassies that also serve as residences)
    • Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility
      • Actual address (note: 'Post Box only' is allowed)
      • Images of the safe house
      • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house
      • Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents
  • Medical information
    • Records or official documentation displaying medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic hereditary of others
  • Information obtained from hacked sources
    • Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual
  • Status or occupation related information
    • Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel if:
      • The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status
      • The imagery identifies the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status
The following content also may be removed
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under thirteen years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian,
    • A minor between thirteen and eighteen years old, and the content was reported by the minor,
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We remove:
  • Content that puts a defector at risk by outing the individual with personally identifiable information when the content is reported by credible government channels
  • Depictions of someone in a medical or health facility if reported by the person pictured or an authorized representative
Do not post:
Content that facilitates identity theft by posting or soliciting personally identifiable information, including (but not limited to)
  • National identification numbers, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, or exam numbers
  • Government IDs
  • School and education IDs featuring two of the following: (1) name, (2) photo, or (3) ID number
  • Digital identities, including passwords
Content that contains medical/psychological, biometric, or genetic detailsrecords or official documentationof others
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing personally identifiable information via an external link
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing private financial information of an organization or business
Content that facilitates identity theft by disclosing the following personal financial information (of either the self or others)
  • Bank account and/or card information
  • Financial records paired with account information
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing the private contact information of others defined as
  • Private phone numbers or addresses
  • Email, Messenger, and chat identities
  • The above information may be shared to promote charitable causes, non-violating services, or to facilitate finding missing people or animals
Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
Content that identifies individuals by name and depicts their personal information, including:
  • Driver’s licenses, Government IDs other than driver’s licenses, Green Cards, or immigration papers
  • Marriage, birth, and name change certificates
  • Digital identities, including passwords
  • License plates
Content that includes photographs that display the external view of private residences if the following conditions apply:
  • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident’s unit number is identified in the image/caption
  • The city or neighborhood is identified
  • A resident is mentioned or depicted
  • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence
Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement personnel if
  • The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status, or
  • The content contains images identifying the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status
Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting its location, contact information, or the type of service and protection it offers through comments, posts, Pages or Groups:
  • Actual address of the safe house (post box only is allowed),
  • Images of the safe house,
  • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house, or
  • Information outing residents of the safe house
The following content also may be removed
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under thirteen years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian,
    • A minor between thirteen and eighteen years old, and the content was reported by the minor,
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own
Do not post:
Content that facilitates identity theft by posting or soliciting personally identifiable information, including (but not limited to)
  • National identification numbers, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, or exam numbers
  • Government IDs
  • School and education IDs featuring two of the following: (1) name, (2) photo, or (3) ID number
  • Digital identities, including passwords
  • Medical/psychological, biometric, or genetic details
Content that contains medical/psychological, biometric, or genetic records or official documentation of others
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing personally identifiable information via an external link
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing private financial information of an organization or business
Content that facilitates identity theft by disclosing the following personal financial information (of either the self or others)
  • Bank account and/or card information
  • Financial records paired with account information
Content that facilitates identity theft by sharing the private contact information of others defined as
  • Private phone numbers or addresses
  • Email, Messenger, and chat identities
  • The above information may be shared to promote charitable causes, non-violating services, or to facilitate finding missing people or animals
Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
Content that identifies individuals by name and depicts their personal information, including:
  • Driver’s licenses, Government IDs other than driver’s licenses, Green Cards, or immigration papers
  • Marriage, birth, and name change certificates
  • Digital identities, including passwords
  • License plates
Content that includes photographs that display the external view of private residences if the following conditions apply:
  • The residence is a single-family home, or the resident’s unit number is identified in the image/caption
  • The city or neighborhood is identified
  • A resident is mentioned or depicted
  • That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence
Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement personnel if
  • The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status, or
  • The content contains images identifying the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status
Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting its location, contact information, or the type of service and protection it offers through comments, posts, Pages or Groups:
  • Actual address of the safe house (post box only is allowed),
  • Images of the safe house,
  • Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house, or
  • Information outing residents of the safe house
The following content also may be removed
  • A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
    • A minor under thirteen years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian,
    • A minor between thirteen and eighteen years old, and the content was reported by the minor,
    • An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal
    • Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own
User experiences
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Note: We’re always improving, so what you see here may be slightly outdated compared to what we currently use.
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Takedown experience
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Warning screens
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