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Italy’s data protection authority has fined Meta 805 million euros, or about $880 million, over the Facebook app’s access to photos and videos in Android users’ galleries.
The authority said Meta accessed photographs, videos and related metadata without obtaining specific consent from users or adequately informing them. It said the issue involved a Facebook feature that offered gallery-based suggestions while users browsed the app.
According to the regulator, the feature was enabled by default and gallery access was requested through a single permission covering multiple app functions. The authority said this did not meet requirements for free and informed consent under privacy rules incorporated into Italian law.
The regulator ordered Meta to disable the feature within 60 days and create a separate consent process for it. Meta had not immediately commented on the decision.
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