In August of 2024, Meta shared a detailed blog post explaining their investment in developing an internal privacy code scanning solution after years of engineering effort.
As the world’s largest social media and ad tech platform, Meta faces numerous privacy challenges in safeguarding the privacy of billions of users. Their main challenge lies in purpose limitation – ensuring that personal data processing is restricted to approved purposes, a crucial aspect of data privacy compliance.
To address this challenge, Meta built a privacy code scanning solution to move away from manual processes and effectively mitigate privacy risks in real-time and at scale. This solution was developed as part of Meta’s Privacy Aware Infrastructure initiative, known as Policy Zones.
Policy Zones allows Meta to monitor data flows at the code level, identify and classify personal data elements, map real-time data flows, create privacy checks, and detect and communicate data flow violations. By enforcing policies at the code level, Meta can prevent future privacy risks and ensure comprehensive privacy governance.
While Meta invested significant time and resources in building their privacy code scanning solution, companies without such resources can turn to Privado for a faster and more cost-effective implementation. Privado offers a solution that enables customers to implement privacy code scanning in just three weeks, providing real-time data maps, SDK governance, auto-risk discovery, smart assessments, consent compliance, and developer tool integrations.
By leveraging Privado’s capabilities, companies can enhance their privacy governance, detect risks proactively, and ensure compliance with regulations like CPRA and GDPR. This streamlined approach to privacy code scanning offers a practical and efficient solution for companies looking to strengthen their data privacy practices.
