Italy's data protection agency fined Meta Platforms €805 million ($887 million) over access to Android users' photos and videos. The regulator says Meta has 60 days to disable the feature by default and seek consent separately.
Italy's data protection agency fined Meta Platforms €805 million ($887 million) on Saturday. It found the company had accessed Android users' photographs and videos without obtaining their consent or informing them.
The authority said Meta had access to the content through a Facebook app feature that suggested items from users' personal galleries that they could post. Meta now has 60 days to disable the feature by default and seek users' consent separately, it added.
However, the investigation, which began in 2025, did not cover the possible use of the content to train artificial intelligence models, a practice Meta denied, the authority said. The agency also reserved the right to assess separately a new feature, launched in 2026, that allows content from users' galleries to be processed in the cloud.
The authority said the fine is equivalent to about 0.47% of the group's global revenue. Meta was not immediately available for comment.
Source: Reuters via Investing.com
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