SMRTR ProgrammingApr 28, 2025Facebook Engineering

How Meta understands data at scale

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Meta has developed a Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) to manage and understand its vast data ecosystem. The system uses a "shift-left" approach, integrating data schematization and annotations early in product development, along with a universal privacy taxonomy to standardize data privacy management across Meta's products.

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