Italy fines Meta $887M for accessing users' photos without specific consent

Italy announced Saturday it is handing Meta an $887 million fine for using photos and videos from Android users’ Facebook galleries without specific consent. Investigators found Facebook had enabled a “get suggestions from gallery when browsing” feature by default and requested access to users' personal photo library t

Italy announced Saturday it is handing Meta an $887 million fine for using photos and videos from Android users’ Facebook galleries without specific consent. The social media giant is accused of not informing 20 million users it had access to their photos. The Italian Data Protection Authority fined Meta Platforms Inc. €805 million ($887 million) for accessing photos and videos of Android users’ galleries without their explicit consent.

The country's data protection authority said Meta accessed users' photos without their "specific" consent.

The Hill reported the story as "Italy fines Meta $887M for accessing users' photos without specific consent." CBS News reported the story as "Italy fines Meta $880 million over accessing users' photos."

4 sources have covered this story, including The Hill, CBS News, BBC News and Bloomberg. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 5 hours ago.

Source accounts have not fully aligned on every figure tied to this story (different reports cite 887, 880 million, 805); the published One News summary holds those specifics open until more sources converge.