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Meta works by identifying users, modelling their behavior, and then combining that data with third party sources (typically your financial activities) and then selling access to that data to third parties. Mostly for advertising.

When you use credit or debit cards your transactions and data related to it is collected and sold. When you apply for mortgages and close on a house all that information you put in there is collected and sold.

When you put your address in for the post office, when you apply for a drivers or fishing license... Your local governments collect that information and sell access to it.

Meta tries to then tie in your online and app/phone activity with your legal/financial identity it can obtain through partner data brokers.

This is Facebook's businesses model.

So, yes, this data is available to pretty much anybody that is willing to pay for it. Which includes governments.

None of this should be surprising to anybody at this point. Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.. all of these companies will do this to greater or lesser extents nowadays since has worked out so well for Meta's bottom line.